Most execution methods are, and it never works out as clean and civilized and painless as is claimed. Miscarriages of justice also happen. I’m glad my jurisdiction doesn’t use death penalties any more, and can only hope humanity manages to consign the idea to history someday.
Yummy, glad to be using some rando’s used soap. But on a more serious note as long as it’s being done in a way that is sanitary and doesn’t risk spreading any diseases then this is much better than producing all that waste.
It’s distributed to poor countries interested in free soap. They don’t reuse it within the hotel, and people that receive it know it’s recycled.
I question if this is actually an efficient way of donating soap, it’s quite an intensive process I wouldn’t be surprised if this was one of those feel-good things that actual costs more than just making new soap.
Yeah, you could be right that it is just for the feel good press to make them look good. Look at clothes donations. It tanks local textile industries and they’re sometimes stuck with piles upon piles of used clothes that don’t even look nice. Maybe there’s something similar happening here.
One of the people involved in getting this program going has commented on this thread. You should ask them about that. I'd be curious to know the answer.
A lot of places created ghost kitchens in door dash and Uber. An example is the dennys near me is also “the burger den” that sells burgers exclusively, and “the meltdown” which serves melts exclusively. Both come right out of the dennys kitchen.
Hey I actually helped create this program. And as info the soap is given to third party companies, plastic is recycled (if bottled soap / shampoo), then it is hygienically processed and donated to a variety of causes. Let me know if you have any questions, but it’s not (for once) horrible capitalism something or reused in the hotels.
Thank you for being part of the solution! With so much waste out there, it's nice to learn that at least some measures like these are being taken.
I'm curious what your job is that this is a program you worked on. Also curious if you had any pushback from hotels or if they reacted positively to the idea from the start.
Obviously this reduces waste which is nice but I was curious, does the program actually save money or does the cost to recycle cost more than what is recovered?
This part is taken care of by 3rd party companies so I can only half answer that. It bring zero savings to the hotel other than a insignificant amount less garbage that is taken away.
Recycling like this is much better and easier because you have large quantities of the same types of plastic all together. This makes processing, sorting and recycling easier. The soap itself is easy to process
There’s a certain subset of consumers for whom price is the most important deciding factor in where and what to buy. No surprise - an assembly line shoveling Sysco is priced pretty competitively.
DoorDash, Uber Eats and all their ilk are awf for other reasons anyways. If you want pizza, call the pizza place directly.
I ate there once some 15 years ago for a friend's birthday. Ordered some kind of beef entree and it was rubbery and unseasoned. Like eating a piece of weatherstripping. Never again.
In the pandemic, I wanted to support struggling mom-and-pop restaurants instead of big conglomerates. So I went out of my way to order from places with names I didn't recognize, both to try them out (you never know if "Alberto's Tacos" has the best taco you've ever had in your life) and to make sure that tiny places could stay afloat.
I still remember the first time this came to bite us in the ass. We ordered from this cute little shop called Thrilled Cheese. They had cute little sandwiches... that both looked and tasted horrible. I was wondering how on earth they had stayed in business with food like that and so I looked up their address from the app.
It was an IHOP. Specifically, an IHOP that we purposely avoid because it's a terrible IHOP that got a "B" from the health inspector and once gave us food poisoning.
Now we have to triple-check that the little family-owned place is really a little family-owned place. Too often it turns out that it's an Applebee's or an IHOP or a Denny's or something. (We did discover some great local restaurants though. Shout-out to "I Heart Pancakes" in Santa Ana, CA - best pancake place ever.)
Yup. This was it for me. Ordered a burger from a no name local place. It came in a Red Robin bag and container. Apperantly they gave no fucks. Since then if I found a place, and it turned out to be real, I just marked it with the heart. Anything not marked it either a big name chain restaurant, or it's suspect. Especially since we also know about ghost kitchens where it's one place posted under at least 10 different restaurants.
Edit: Just for shits and giggles, I just loaded up the app. First place I didn't recognize I checked and Google shows it in the middle of an industrial complex. No restaurant signs anywhere to show where it's at.
Then I saw "the burger den", which another person said is Dennys. Google maps takes it to Dennys
Red Robin used to be a great regional burger place but it has just been destroyed. We used to go a few times a month but I haven't been for at least 5 years.
I mean, Chuckies pizza is slightly better than Domino’s pre-recipe change, and that went on for decades. It’s not like there’s a high bar for selling pizza. You can sell a stale cracker, with tomato sauce on it, for a long time before going bankrupt. If the crackers are cheap enough.
Also my bet is that it was just a way for them to keep some revenue flowing, keep people employed, and not have to shutter their entire business. I mean lets face it, their business model is spreading diseases while, entertaining children whose parents are ordering beer by the pitcher. Not exactly a winning model during a pandemic. They had to do something.
There is a 0% chance of me ordering Chuckie Cheese pizza. There is a non-zero chance of me ordering pizza from a random restaurant. So in that regard, even with me they’d improve their odds, although still slim.
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