New Partnership Will See Over 8,000 Hotels Engage With Responsible Plastic Management

The Responsible Plastic Management (RPM) Program has announced a new six-figure global partnership deal with the US-based Clean the World organisation and foundation. The partnership aims to better manage the use and disposal of hotel bathroom plastics associated with soap products. RPM Program works with organisations across different sectors to better manage plastics and reduce the impact of plastic use on the environment. The social enterprise initiative started with engaging several plastic-conscious organisations in Northern Ireland and this is now expanding nationally, internationally and exponentially.

Clean the World is a social enterprise dedicated to WASH (water, sanitation and hygiene) and sustainability. Operating in Orlando, Montreal, Las Vegas, Hong Kong, Amsterdam, Washington DC, London and Punta Cana.

Clean the World claims that it is a “Global Hygiene Revolution” by working with more than 8,100 hospitality partners, including some of the leading hotel groups in the world and independents. Since inception, the organisation has served more than 15 million individuals, distributed 73 million bars of soap and 5 million hygiene kits, and diverted over 23 million pounds of waste from landfills around the world.

The new partnership will see RPM and Clean the World work together to better manage hotel bathroom plastics and soap. They will sophisticate soap and plastic management collection and recycling initiatives to allow RPM and Clean the World third party verification and certification across the globe, ensuring that waste does not go to landfill or incineration.

Aaron Marshall, RPM’s founding director, says, “The Clean the World partnership and projects are great news for RPM and for all parties; the global hotel groups, recyclers and most importantly the environment. It puts NI as a centre of excellence for responsible plastic management and thought leadership and will create new green jobs.”