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Soap Opera: Hotel Bits Recycled And Donated


According to AP, some hotels are taking those itsy soap pieces left behind by departed guests and sending them to a recycling plant. They’re melted together, sanitized and processed into fresh bars to be donated to families in poverty areas around the world.

A recent example is the Stonewall Resort in West Virginia. The hotel’s plan is to send the used soap to the nonprofit Global Soap Project processing center in Norcross, Ga. Global Soap Project representatives estimate that more than two million bars of guest-used soap are trashed every day by U.S. hotels.
Pearl Harbor HI: WW2 Swamp Ghost On Exhibit PDF Print E-mail


The Pacific Aviation Museum now shows the restored vintage B17 bomber that was recently recovered on New Guinea. Named Swamp Ghost, it was shot down while on a raid of Japanese positions in 1942. All crew members survived and were taken to American forces by friendly natives.

If you’re planning to visit the USS Arizona Memorial, spend an hour or two at this memorial to wartime aviation. Address: 319 Lexington Blvd., Honolulu HI 96818. Entrance fee to the museum is $30. For more info, go to www.pacificaviationmuseum.org
 
 
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