TIL Many hotels including Hilton and Marriott collect guests’ used soaps, scrape the hair and stuff off, then melt them down to make new soaps. (www.cnn.com)
Used soap from Hilton Hotels is getting a second life.
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Used soap from Hilton Hotels is getting a second life.
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Perhaps this is a dark thought… but I’m wondering what the future Lemmy equivalents to “We did it Reddit!” or “Thanks for the gold kind stranger!” will be....
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