ORLANDO, FLA.—The Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise, a luxurious property located on the shores of Lake Louise in Banff National Park, has partnered with Clean the World, an Orlando-based soap recycling organization, to collect discarded hotel amenities and distribute them to people in need.
Collections for recycling begin September 16 and will help reinforce the eco-friendly profile of The Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise, which already enjoys a strong reputation for responsible tourism and sustainable hotel management. Since opening its doors in 1890, the Chateau has been a distinguished vacation destination in the heart of Banff National Park.
With 554 guestrooms and suites, The Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise is a strong addition to Clean the World’s growing list of more than 400 hotel and resort partners in North America, which includes 10 properties in Canada.
Battling Killer Diseases
“Each day in Canada alone, more than 50,000 pounds of hotel soaps are discarded after guest use,” says Shawn Seipler, executive director of Clean the World. “That’s more than 18 million pounds of waste per year that we can help divert from landfills. By partnering with Clean the World, The Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise will become part of the solution to eliminating excess landfill waste, while also providing healthy gifts of soap to help fight preventable diseases, such as pneumonia and diarrheal disease, throughout the world.”
Since its founding in 2009, Clean the World has distributed more than 6 million bars (375 tons) of recycled soap to impoverished families around the globe.
As part of the arrangement, The Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise agrees to provide the gently used guest soaps and shampoos to Clean the World’s recently opened recycling operation center in Vancouver through a partnership with Mission Possible and Linwood House Ministries. These hotel amenities will be collected, recycled, sanitized, and distributed to children and families throughout North America and more than 30 countries worldwide, especially where children younger than five are dying at a rate of 9,000 per day due to acute respiratory illness and diarrheal diseases. Studies show that more than 60 percent of these instances of disease could be prevented by simply washing each day with bar soap.
Countries receiving recycled soaps include Haiti, Pakistan, Armenia, India, the Dominican Republic, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Ethiopia, Uganda, and Swaziland.
Significant Waste Diverted
“The Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise is thrilled to announce our partnership with Clean the World,” says Gregor Resch, general manager of The Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise. “As we continue to be an industry leader in sustainability and environmental initiatives, with the addition of this Clean the World recycling program, not only will we be helping people around the world, but we will be diverting more than two tons of waste from landfills each year.”
Because of Clean the World’s growing popularity among hotels, bed and breakfasts and resorts, additional soap recycling centers are scheduled to open in Toronto and Las Vegas by the end of the year.
“Our goal is to be in every hotel, resort and bed and breakfast throughout the world,” says Seipler. “The importance of our mission and the social corporate responsibility benefits associated with soap recycling make this a very attractive green initiative for the entire hospitality industry. We’re just getting started.”
Go to the Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise and Clean the World.
