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Those tiny hotel soaps are just the peak of the iceberg. My SO used to work seasonally in a hostel in Venice. People leave a lot of half-used shower gel bottle
by Tade0 5y ago
Those tiny hotel soaps are just the peak of the iceberg.
My SO used to work seasonally in a hostel in Venice. People leave a lot of half-used shower gel bottles, soaps, makeup products etc.
It got to a point where the staff just put all the products which were safe to use(laundry detergent, shower gels, spray deodorant, shaving foam) in an unoccupied room referred to as "the Rossmann" (popular drugstore chain in some European countries) from which everyone in the know was at liberty to take as much as they wished.
A fraction of the goods were originally found unopened.
- nicbou 5y agoI frequently contribute to the Rossman. I made it up to 4 weeks without forgetting my shampoo bottle, but that's my record.
- Tade0 5y agoMinimum wage hospitality workers appreciate your contribution. Considering that due to a loophole(qualifying work spanning less than three months as a "business trip") they were paid the Polish, not Italian minimum wage, those €2 worth of shower gel went a long way.
- bonestamp2 5y agoI used to travel every week for work. I became obvious that hotels should just use liquid soap instead of bars. Many indeed do this now, including large refillable dispensers for shampoo, conditioner and body wash/gel. With the amount saved, we can probably provide lots of the same to poor countries too.
- toomuchtodo 5y agoWhy do they not do the same for the hand soap bar and eliminate the last wasteful bit entirely?
- moralestapia 5y agoHow?
- toomuchtodo 5y agohttps://www.google.com/search?q=hospitality+hand+soap+dispenser https://www.google.com/search?q=hospitality+hand+soap+dispen...
- moralestapia 5y agoOh sure, lol. I was thinking about the bars, and of some sort of weird contraption extruding small bars of soap on demand. >Overengineering
- toomuchtodo 5y agoNo worries, I thought to myself, "You know, the soap pump thingy, like I use at home. Am I not thinking this through?"
- hoseja 5y agoThere DOES EXIST a soap-shaver contraption. You put bar soap in, it shaves off flakes for single use. See if I can find it. Here: https://www.google.com/search?q=soap+flake+dispenser https://www.google.com/search?q=soap+flake+dispenser