What happens to hotel soap?

Question

While on business trips, I often stay in hotels for a couple of nights. Even if the bathroom soap has been used only a little, the staff always replace the bar each every day.

Are the old bars recycled? Perhaps they are melted down and reprocessed into new bars? If not (and they are just thrown away) someone ought to launch a campaign to encourage people to take their own soap to hotels!

Answer 1

I have worked in lots of hotels as a housekeeper, and yes soaps are ALWAYS thrown away.The soaps are not recycled. The soaps are very cheap, like 2 or 3 cents each so it doesn't really hurt them financially to throw them away. They are supposed to be thrown away for health reasons.

Answer 2

http://www.pluralsight.com/blogs/mgudgin...

Answer 3

Your Surposed To Take(Steal) Them

Answer 4

I'm sure most hotels just throw them away, but there is a company that is "collecting" old bars of soap and putting them through a process that creates a cleaning solution for artists and other industries that need strong cleansers.

Trying to find a URL about it now, can't remember the name of the company off the top of my head...

edited to add:

did a quick search, this was one of the first things that came up...

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&ct=html&c...