Soapy Success
After years of traveling the country working a corporate tech job, Shawn Seipler decided to quit his job and do something rather unconventional. Founder and CEO of a new company called Clean the World the aspiring entrepreneur had an idea based on all his previous hotel stays and observation that soap seemed to have a one time, very wasteful use. He wasn't wrong. For hygienic purposes all soaps must be thrown out after a guest leaves. That makes sense for the used bars but in order for hotel owners to get the highest inspection ratings possible, they must also dispose of unused soap left in the wrapper. This means 1 million bars of soap per day in the US plus another 4 million worldwide are discarded in the trash and headed for your local landfills. Shawn came up with a method to not only gather this soap with the partnership of many hotel chains but a process (re-batching) to melt it back down and repurpose it for distribution to third world countries where access to hygiene reso...