Until recently thousands of shampoo bottles and soaps, used or unused, from Holland Cruise ships all went one place: landfills. But now their Ship to Shelter program found a use for the once discarded items. They are now collected, separated into bins and brought through Customs at the San Diego Port to be distributed to homeless shelters. (Read the full story at CNN)
Thanks to Harriot for the story tip!
This is wonderful…now just to make sure the bottles get recycled as well. Perhaps the shelters could get on board with a recycling program for that.