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Global Soap Project Moves Operations to New Las Vegas Manufacturing Facility

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ATLANTA—Global Soap Project, the nonprofit organization focused on educating, empowering, and improving the hygiene and health of vulnerable populations around the world, has announced the opening of a new 7,000 square-foot manufacturing facility in Las Vegas.

The facility, which is double the size of its original Atlanta plant, has relocated to Las Vegas to more efficiently process the donations of used soap from more than 150,000-plus hotel rooms, including a large concentration in the Las Vegas area.

Global Soap Project accepts used soap in bulk from hotels, and then processes them into large bars, which are distributed to 32 of the poorest regions in the world. This undertaking is in cooperation with global health organizations including the Center for Disease Control (CDC), Helping Hand for Relief Development (HHRD), World Water Relief (WWR) and CARE International.

The new Las Vegas facility will be capable of producing four million bars of soap annually, and will save more than one million pounds of soap from being dumped into landfills each year. Additionally, the new plant will accept plastic amenity bottles for recycling. Membership with Global Soap Project is free for hotel partners.

Many Die from Lack of Sanitation

Water and hygiene-related illnesses in the developing world, including diarrheal diseases such as cholera, dysentery, and other respiratory infections, are responsible for more deaths in children under the age of five years old than HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria combined.

There are 4,468 preventable hygiene deaths each day among children under five. Research shows that hand washing with soap is more effective in preventing diseases and death than vaccines, medications or clean water initiatives.

In the United States alone, more than 2.6 million bars of soap are discarded daily. Global Soap Project solves both of these problems by helping the environment, and providing 400,000 people each year with soap and hygiene education.

The new facility requires 6,000 volunteers each year to assist the full-time staff in sorting and packaging the soap. Volunteers from schools, churches, companies and convention groups not only find this highly rewarding, but also a unique and fun activity. Global Soap Project provides this free service to more than 150,000 hotel rooms around the United States.

The new Global Soap manufacturing plant is located at 317 East Lone Mountain Road, Suite G, North Las Vegas, NV, 89081. For more information, volunteer opportunities or a chance to visit the plant, contact lilly@globalsoap.org or call (678) 235-8095.

Go to Global Soap Project.

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