CLEANING THE WORLD


WITH HILTON SOAP The Hilton hotel chain has launched the Clean the World Challenge to recycle a million bars of soap by Global Handwashing Day on 15 October 2019.


As the challenge’s name suggests, Hilton has joined forces with Clean the World to recycle soap bars left behind in hotel guest rooms across the Hilton Garden Inn, Hampton by Hilton and All Suites brands.


Hilton say Clean the World’s mission aligns with their own Travel with Purpose initiative, the company’s corporate responsibility strategy. By 2030, Hilton aims to cut its environmental footprint in half and send zero soap to landfill.


Shawn Seipler, founder and Chief Executive Officer of Clean the World, said: “Hilton understands the urgent need for recycled soap donation and hygiene education in communities all over the world, and they have been a great partner of ours for many years. As many as 2.3 billion people around the world lack basic sanitation and over 3,500 children die from preventable hygiene-related illnesses every day. This challenge will make a meaningful difference for countless people in need.”


Through its soap recycling partnership with Clean the World, Hilton has contributed to the distribution of more than 7.6m bars of recycled soap, resulting in more than 2m pounds of soap and amenity bottles being diverted from landfills. Discarded soap is crushed, sanitised and cut into new soap bars. Amenity bottles are repurposed for hygiene kits or recycled.


Since its founding in 2009, Clean the World has distributed more than 48m soap bars across more than 127 countries.


www.hilton.com www.cleantheworld.org


LOO OF THE YEAR 2019


OPEN FOR BUSINESS Entries are now being received for the 2019 Loo of the Year Awards – the annual competition to find the best places ‘to go’ in the Republic of Ireland, the UK, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man.


Many small, national and international cleaning and FM companies and other providers of ‘away from home washrooms’ enter their or their client’s loos in Loo of the Year Awards each year, and receive an independent assessment of their washroom service provision and recognition for the high standards achieved.


Who assesses how clean and well maintained the washrooms that you clean or provide are? How do you benchmark your achievements against competitors in your market sector? Does your company and its cleaning staff receive recognition for a job well done?


Mike Bone, the Awards’ Managing Director, said: “Companies and institutions use their entries in the annual Loo of the Year Awards as a proven, cost effective and independent annual assessment of the standard of their washroom provision management and receive proper recognition through our annual grading scheme. We Clean in 2015 and ABM demonstrated in 2017 that a cleaning or FM services company can achieve the ultimate accolade by winning the overall Loo of the Year Awards Trophy.”


There are a range of National and Overall awards and trophies for the very best entries which will be presented at the prestigious Awards Presentation Event to be held on Friday 6 December in Solihull. Anyone can enter online via the website below. The closing date for entries is 30 June 2019.


www.loo.co.uk


www.tomorrowscleaning.com


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