{"id":118635,"date":"2023-11-09T07:56:52","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T05:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/how-a-melbourne-recycling-program-is-using-old-hotel-soap-to-solve-a-global-health-problem\/"},"modified":"2023-11-09T07:56:52","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T05:56:52","slug":"how-a-melbourne-recycling-program-is-using-old-hotel-soap-to-solve-a-global-health-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/how-a-melbourne-recycling-program-is-using-old-hotel-soap-to-solve-a-global-health-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"How a Melbourne recycling program is using old hotel soap to solve a global health problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118635\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>What looks like a potato peeler whizzes across a tiny cube of soap, removing the outer layer, before it&#8217;s lobbed into a pile. &#8220;We clean them, literally and manually of any hair, any packaging, any foreign body,&#8221; Mike Matulick, the founder of not-for-profit organisation Soap Aid, says. &#8220;There are literally millions of bars of soap going to landfill globally. The problem is high-scale.&#8221; Mr Matulick has spent 20 years in the hotel supply sector and has seen the waste.<\/p>\n<p>According to the World Health Organization, 2.3 billion people lack access to basic hygiene services, including soap and water at home, and poor hand hygiene results in 297,000 deaths a year. A decade after Soap Aid&#8217;s inception, boxes of used soap from 250 hotels across Australia and New Zealand come to a warehouse in Melbourne&#8217;s south. Some soap is yellow-brown, cracked, and filthy. Others are pristine and in their original wrappings. Phase one includes manually and visually checking, and sorting what is not salvageable. The rest is checked by a metal detector and scraped clean by hand. &#8220;I check up to 200 kilograms a day,&#8221; shouts a worker proudly over the whirr of machinery.<\/p>\n<p>Then, soap that is deemed to be reusable is dumped into a machine for a multi-phase process to treat, smash, strain, and then re-mould the soap. &#8220;The process takes about 30 minutes,&#8221; says Mary-Jane Stolp, the CEO of The Bridge, which supplies workers for Soap Aid. The Bridge helps disadvantaged adults find long-term work, and Mrs Stolp told the ABC she was proud her team could be part of a project that helps people and the environment. &#8220;It really is changing lives,&#8221; she says. &#8220;The program we have with Soap Aid is actually five years in the making.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2023-11-09\/used-hotel-soap-recycling-program-melbourne\/103074122\">ABC<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/environmental-news-en\/5-433\/\">How a Melbourne recycling program is using old hotel soap to solve a global health problem<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[575,4420,4263,764,11022],"class_list":["post-118635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-environmental-news-en","tag-hotel","tag-melbourne","tag-recycling","tag-soap"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}