Kempinski Palace Portorož joins
the Clean the World initiative to Enhance Recycling Activities
Since
the end of 2019, the Kempinski luxury hotel group has been working with the
international recycling programme, which recycles hotel amenities and donates
soap to organisations around the world while protecting the environment from
harmful waste. Kempinski Palace Portorož joined this initiative and proudly
presents the first results.
Continuously striving to
reinforce its commitment to improve environmental impacts and support social
initiatives is a key objective of Kempinski Hotels. To further expand the partnership
with Clean the World, a leader in global health
dedicated to sustainability around water, sanitation and hygiene, a number of
Kempinski hotels have joined the programme, among which is also Kempinski
Palace Portorož.
Clean the World’s hospitality
programme takes discarded soap bars and bottled amenities and recycles them in
order to protect the environment, preserve natural resources, help communities
in need and reduce costs. The seamless process starts with a housekeeping
service collecting the used soap and amenities and sorting them into Clean the
World-provided bins. Once full, the bins are shipped to one of Clean the World’s
warehouses, where the soap is then run through a special filtration process,
whereby all debris is removed and filtered. This is then mixed with a
lab-tested sanitation solution and pressed into new soap bars. The bars are
cut, packed and shipped to one of the many distribution partners around the
world, including the UN Refugee Agency, Children
International, Global
Medic, World
Vision and the Red
Cross, to name a few. From there, the bars are then
put directly into the hands of those who are vulnerable and so desperately need
them.
Even though the hotel was closed for a large portion of the previous
year, the collected amenities still had a big impact on those in need, with 236
kg of plastic collected, 282 kg of waste collected and 46 kg of soap collected,
with a carbon footprint reduction of 62 kg CO2e.
All soap continues to be collected rather than disposed of in the hotel,
and we are getting ready for the next shipment, which will, again, help those
in need and help with environment protection.
Kempinski Palace Portorož