Summary: Guest room soaps and bottled amenities (shampoos, conditioners, lotions and gels) from 22 lodging establishments in Laguna Beach, Calif., will be recycled for worldwide distribution to stop the spread of preventable diseases.

Now 22 hotels and lodging properties in Laguna Beach, Calif., know that recycling soap to save lives is something they can all agreed to do.

The Laguna Beach Visitors & Conference Bureau (LBVCB) announced today that all of the hospitality industry lodging properties with 20 rooms or more in this picturesque, coastal Orange County city have partnered with Clean the World Global LLC, a social enterprise committed to saving lives and protecting our planet. Hospitality partners here will collect and recycle hotel soaps, shampoos, conditioners, lotions and gels to help fight the global spread of preventable diseases.

Laguna Beach has 18 hotel and lodging properties with 20 rooms or more and four properties with less than 20 rooms that have joined the Clean the World hospitality partnership program. Properties include: Aliso Creek Inn; Art Hotel Laguna Beach; Best Western Laguna Brisas Spa Hotel; Capri Laguna on the Beach; Casa Laguna Inn and Spa; Carriage House; Crescent Bay Inn; Holiday Inn Laguna Beach; Hotel Laguna; Inn at Laguna Beach; La Casa del Camino; Laguna Beach Inn; Laguna Cliffs Inn; Laguna Riviera; Montage Laguna Beach; Pacific Edge Hotel; The Retreat; Seacliff Laguna Inn; Sunset Cove Villas; Surf & Sand Resort and Spa; The Tides Laguna Beach; and Travelodge Laguna Beach. The total number of properties represent more than 1,200 guest rooms in Laguna Beach.

Clean the World has hospitality partnerships with more than 1,200 hotel properties throughout North America, including 143 partners in California. Clean the World’s California hospitality partners have contributed 70,329 lbs. of soap and 67,844 lbs. of bottled amenities since the organization’s founding in 2009. That equates to 375,088 bars (3 oz. apiece), which is enough to provide 75,018 children with enough soap for an entire month.

The announcement by the LBVCB symbolizes Laguna Beach’s ongoing commitment to environmental stability, the reduction of hotel waste in local landfills, and the benefits of recycling an abundance of hotel soaps and bottled amenities (shampoos, conditioners, lotions and gels) as hygiene products to benefit children and families in need.

Clean the World is the largest global recycler of hotel amenities, and in just two years of operation has distributed more than 9 million bars of soap to children and families in the United States, Canada and more than 45 countries worldwide, while also fulfilling a valuable environmental mission by diverting an estimated 600 tons of hotel waste from polluting landfills in the United States and Canada.

“We’re impressed by the efforts of Clean the World and wanted to show our support in a unique way by becoming the first city-wide program to embrace its lifesaving mission,” says Judy Bijlani, CEO and President of the Laguna Beach Visitors & Conference Bureau. “Our seaside village is an inviting retreat for art lovers, environmentalists and beach enthusiasts, and the idea of recycling soaps and protecting our planet is something we wholeheartedly support.”

Each day 9,000 children around the world die from diseases such as acute respiratory illness and diarrheal diseases that can be prevented by washing with bar soap. Clean the World has a mission to put soap in the hands of people who need it most to improve hygiene and sanitation conditions to lessen the impact of disease and promote better hygiene and living conditions worldwide.

“Laguna Beach is Southern California’s premiere seaside destination, and a city deserving of praise for its promotion of sustainability and social responsibility,” says Shawn Seipler, CEO and co-founder of Clean the World. “Our hotel partners in Laguna Beach should be applauded for their collaboration on this unique partnership and its distinction of being our first municipality to embrace Clean the World’s mission to recycle soap and save lives. I hope the efforts of the LBVCB will inspire other communities, municipalities and cities to do the same.”