I spend time volunteering at Soap for Hope and Disaster Aid Canada
You would be shocked to see what is donated by local hotels to these non-profits as a way of diversion to the landfill.
Bedding, bathrobes towels and slippers as well as toiletries and lost and found.
Approx 6 skid lots a week are received and repurposed into bedding packs, hygiene kits etc. Approx 2500 kits are distributed locally every month to the shelters and 5-10,000 kits are sent on disaster relief annually. Yesterday I moved 200 bed packs which is 2 sheets plus a comforter to be prepped for a shipment to Africa through Compassionate Resource Warehouse.
Cruise ships that come for refit often donate all their bedding mattresses and furniture etc. What they can take is redistributed through shelters etc.
Landfill diversion is huge and there are lots of non-profits willing to step in and work with these outfits.
Soap for Hope has approx 60% of the hotels in Victoria and up-island, Vancouver, Whistler, Kelowna and Calgary.
Helps doesnt mention the good relationship the cruise lines have with local non profits at their ports of call
Edited by rjag, 12 October 2019 - 08:21 AM.