Hotel soap ends up in the trash – but not at our partner hotels
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It's a thought that rarely crosses your mind when checking into a hotel: What actually happens to the small bar of soap on the sink when you check out?
A problem hardly anyone sees
The answer is sobering: In most hotels, the soap ends up in the trash – even if it was barely used. For hygienic reasons, it cannot be reused. A guest checks out, housekeeping staff replaces everything – shampoo, shower gel, soap – and most of it is almost untouched after just one night.
Every year, several dozen tons of hotel soap end up in landfills or incinerated in Switzerland alone. The situation is similar in Germany, Austria, and throughout Europe.
The paradox: Soap is one of the most important hygiene products in the world. Regular handwashing with soap saves lives – in developing countries, in refugee camps, in regions without a reliable water supply. And at the same time, millions of bars of soap are discarded unused every year.
How we as a supplier of Tyrolean hotel soap are connected
Tirol Seife supplies handmade natural soaps to hotels in the region. This gives us a special responsibility – and a special opportunity.
If our hotels don't simply dispose of used soaps, but rather make them available for a recycling program, a cycle is completed. And that's exactly what SapoCycle stands for.
In the coming weeks, we will tell you more about how SapoCycle works, what happens to the soaps, and why our natural soap is particularly suitable for this cycle.
