The scene is played by thousands of times a day on the tourist Strip: rip open hotel room SOAP, pop open a free bottle of shampoo, conditioner and body wash and use it once or twice. Then they leave, and the facility seated half full on the bathroom counter.
Not so long ago, SOAP and shampoo they are discarded. Now, they are being recycled to help save lives.
A number of resorts on the Strip has partnered with non-profit groups NET world to collect much use hotel bathrooms and recycle them for use by people in need in the United States and abroad. Recycling SOAP and shampoo were sent to Las Vegas homes for pregnant teenagers, homeless shelter in New York City, Houston and Chicago and poor villages abroad. They have helped hundreds of thousands of Haitians struggle in earthquake 2010 and, recently, a number of Filipinos left homeless by the cyclone and floods.