Partners with Clean the World
(Verona, NY – March 2014) Turning Stone Resort Casino has announced its innovative new approach to disposing of the hotel’s hundreds of thousands of leftover hygiene products each year. Through a new partnership with the non-profit Clean the World, Inc., Turning Stone is recycling the resort’s used soaps and shampoos to help reduce unnecessary waste and prevent disease throughout the world.
Hygiene products from the resort will be sanitarily recycled and used for emergency relief efforts and other causes. They will be distributed to partnering nonprofit organizations for delivery to developing countries and homeless shelters.
Studies show that hand washing with soap can effectively reduce the instances of diarrheal disease and acute respiratory infection, the leading global causes of death for children under five.
Since its inception in 2009, Clean the World has distributed more than 340 tons of soap, shampoo and other amenities to dozens of countries in need worldwide. Turning Stone will add to those totals by contributing all excess of the resort’s more than 300,000 soap bars and 440,000 bottled hygiene products used annually.
By partnering with Clean the World, Turning Stone is also helping to reduce the landfill waste generated by its resort hotels. In the past five years alone, Clean the World and its partners have diverted more than 1,000 tons (2 million pounds) from clogging landfills.
“Clean the World is an incredible organization with two commendable missions, promoting health and protecting the planet, that each speak to the values of Turning Stone and the Oneida Indian Nation,” said Oneida Indian Nation Representative and Nation Enterprises CEO Ray Halbritter. “We are thrilled to partner with Clean the World to help reduce unnecessary waste, prevent disease and ultimately save lives.”
“Our hotel partners are the driving force behind the global hygiene revolution,” said Shawn Seipler, founder and CEO of Clean the World. “By making a commitment to sustainable, socially responsible programs in the hospitality industry, partners such as Turning Stone and the Oneida Indian Nation are using leftover soap and bottled amenities to help save lives.”
Learn more about Clean the World at http://www.cleantheworld.org/