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    Jackie P.

    Thankful for the opportunity to volunteer here! I love that they give you a tour and some historic information on the how soaps have developed through the years. It is definitely a sight to see with vintage marketing all around. Our jobs were pretty straightforward and very simple which was sorting plastics. It was a great time to volunteer with all types of people as they keep the environment upbeat!

    Stacy F.

    A brand new facility for this charity and perfectly designed for what they do! When you walk in to volunteer you'll go through the 'soap history' walk and it's really neat! They cover soap making from it's conception to now and how they're using it to help out locally and abroad. This charity takes gently used soaps and other toiletries and recycles them. They work with hundreds of hotels to collect those little soaps and bottles that are hardly used. From there they recycle the plastic bottles, clean and sanitize the bar soaps and create hygiene kits. Some of the product is circulated back into the community to assist homeless or displaced persons. Other items are sent to third world countries to help combat disease. This facility is huge and has all the right set ups to quickly and efficiently abolish their accomplish. We have been doing volunteer events with them for years and look forward to many more in this new location! Overreach: A+ A wonderful new facility to accommodate this amazing charity!

    Robbie G.

    UPDATE: Pictured is the event I organized here with the Nova Southeastern University Physician Assistant Program in a Orlando. Fifty seven PA Trainees took a few hours out of their very busy schedule to come help out at CTW. ---------- Original Review: I've been volunteering for Clean the World off and on for several years now, and it's a great organization. They take bath products from hotels around the country that would otherwise be thrown away after the guests have left and recycle them. Liquids and bottles are converted into hygiene kits, and soap bars are cleaned up, melted down, made a new bars, and shipped out to places without access to them. This, coupled with hand hygiene education, has saved millions of lives around the world since their inception. In addition, these products are getting used rather than going directly to a dumpster and landfill. This is also one of the few volunteering opportunities that are appropriate for younger kids.

    Susan W.

    Sadly due to the pandemic, I haven't been able to volunteer as much as I have in the past, but thanks to Clean the World, I got to do good in the comfort of my own home. I was excited to learn that they now will send you a hygiene making kit that can be completed at home and shipped back to them at no cost to you. It was super easy and fun to do with my 6 year old niece. If you are looking for a safe volunteer opportunity, I would highly recommend checking out their website for more information!

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    Mia P.

    This might sound crazy but I had FUN volunteering here! After almost three hours to sorting through mini shampoo bottles, I couldn't believe how fast the time passed. Clean The World is a charitable organization that helps recycle soap, shampoo, and hair conditioner so that hotel mini toiletries can be cleansed and repackaged for parts of the world where these types of products are scarce for the general population. In a touristy place like Central Florida with so many hotels, you can imagine how many places have left over soap bars and bottles of shampoo/conditioner that might have been used once, if at all. Clean The World collects these items and sorts through them to make newly packaged hygiene kits for people with limited access to these basic supplies. This keeps people clean and helps with waste of products and recycling of containers. You can come volunteer here to sort through the abundant amount of supplies to help this organization accomplish their mission. The process is wearing rubber gloves and sorting through bottles to make sure the items are reusable and discarding damaged items. Other duties included sorting mini soap bars and grouping like items, boxing, and counting. The staff here are great, they explained the charity's mission and showed us the finished products that go to underprivileged parts of the world. The stories were very heartwarming about families and kids that were excited to receive soap as a gift. It really makes you appreciate when you reflect that others are happy just to receive soap! I understand Clean The World needs volunteers all the time, so try it out if you have some free time on your hands. It feels nice to help.

    Sorting soaps in the warehouse
    Stacy V.

    Clean the World is an easy group or individual volunteer opportunity in Orlando. The organization basically takes in travel sized soaps from hotels and recycles them. How does one volunteer here? It's a simple concept as well: sign up in advance through their website, show up, and stand there for a couple hours and sort soaps in their warehouse. They have weekday opportunities, but the Saturday opportunities fill up fast. I volunteered here in mid April, and they said the Saturdays were booked until June. The sorting can be a little monotonous, so they recently built in a fun game of trivia. Overall, the operation is very organized and it's a great way to spend a couple hours volunteering.

    Colleen B.

    Clean the World, Inc. is an Orlando-based charitable organization (501(c)(3) non-profit. Their goal is huge, but the solution is so very simple: save the millions of lives lost each year to acute lower-respiratory infection and diarreal illness by distributing recycled soap and promoting proper personal hygiene practices. They are the world's first, high volume soap recycler. I love when organizations find a mission and the solution is one that makes you go "well yeah, that makes sense, how come that's not happening everywhere?" This is one of those organizations. I learned about it last year and was blown away by the courtesy and kindness of the staff. There are three Clean the World recycling operation centers one of which is based here in Orlando and the other two: Las Vegas, and Toronto, Ontario. Additional collection and recycling facilities are coming soon. They have various Hospitality Partners and work with them on educating their staff on the soap and shampoo Recycling Program. They then provide bins which housekeeping staff uses to deposits collected soap and they are picked up weekly. The soap is taken to our Soap Recycling plant, where it is then put through a sanitization process and the best part is, you can volunteer to help with this process. They hold workshops for volunteers to donate their time to help clean and organize the products to get ready for distribution! You can also donate soap to the cause. Check out all of the volunteer opps here: http://cleantheworld.org/volunteer.asp They also host local events to raise awareness and money: http://www.cleantheworld.org/events.asp So happy to say they are based in Orlando and I can personally help!

    This is where your used soap left in hotels goes to be repurposed.
    Pam H.

    What an amazing organization! And what a simple concept- simply showing children how to wash their hands and providing them with the hygienic supplies that we all take for granted every day prevents the spread of acute respiratory infections and diarrheal diseases, which is a huge cause of death of children around the world. A friend and I signed up to volunteer through Hands on Orlando, which is an awesome volunteer network (www.handsonorlando.com). We didn't really know what we would be doing, but when we arrived and saw the huge bins of soaps and bottles we knew we would be in for some kind of sorting. What's super cool about this organization is that not only are they helping to save lives, but they are helping to keep waste out of landfills. The soaps and shampoos, shower gels, etc. are collected from hotels, who would normally just toss the half used items. I will not feel guilty next time I use those little products, now that I know they don't just end up in the landfills! Our job on this day was to sort through the donated shampoos and keep the bottles that were 80 percent full. The bottles that were broken or less than 80 percent full were thrown into a bin and will be recycled. Nothing is wasted. The bottles that are full will be assembled in to care packs and passed out to homeless folks here in our communities. The volunteer coordinators were so much fun and enthusiastic, getting everyone pumped up and playing music. This is definitely a cause I support, and I plan to be back again real soon to help out.

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    Kristen P.

    Clean the world is a non profit that takes used soaps from hotels and recycles them into fresh bars for underprivileged parts of the world. Basically, they collect the soap from hotels and bring it to the warehouse. Volunteers clean the soap, then it goes to a processing plant where they sterilize it and reshape it into new bars. As a cleaning the soap volunteer, you take a potato peeler and remove the leftovers (ie hairs and dirt) from the surface of the soap. It's actually really easy but a little gross (I gagged twice but some of the nastier hairs). They give you gloves and they have some masks. There were about 80 people volunteering the day I went. We processed approx. 16,000 bars of soap! In less than 3 hours! Insane! They need about 1000 volunteers a month and they only average about 500 now. So you can help out!

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    i tried to call them multiple of times but no answer ! how do you expect to get volunteers but you cant even answer the phone ??

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    Awesome company, great cause they are trying to make a difference in the world. Love it

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    Great place to volunteer! Really have their program together and do a great job of providing meaningful work.

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    It is a full service recycle center. They take all household recycling except foam which Publix…read moretakes. No fees. There is a spot for appliances, hazardous items, regular garbage and all recyclables. You check in and go unload your items yourself. Easy to do, we need to all do our part.

    Honestly, one little thing ruined this 1 star review from being a 5 star review…read more I worked with Dave and my corporate office to have Orlando Recycles pick up a plethora of old IT equipment ranging from monitors, to an old TV, desktops, etc. My corporate office gave me specific requirements on what needed to be done for hard drives, including a certificate per drive showing they were destroyed. This is a common requirement in IT departments everywhere, as obviously we're responsible for that data and don't need it getting into the wrong hands. This is something I spoke with Dave about over the phone, and reiterated I needed. Dave came by with another gentleman and took out all the equipment as requested no problem. Sometime later, I received a receipt that showed what was taken. The only thing that was numerically listed was the hard drives that were removed. However, I received no certificates. I emailed Dave. He said he had no notes of that request. Of course not, it was a phone conversation. Nor did he ask me on the day of if that was as service I needed or wanted. So while he apologized, that really doesn't help my case at all. Because of that slight oversight (which is actually a massive issue), I can't recommend nor use this company again in the future.

    Clean the World - nonprofit - Updated May 2026

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