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Sean saw hotels throwing away soap and started collecting it. He now processes discarded bars from 8,000 hotels, makes $12 million a year, and donates soap to communities to reduce child mortality from poor hygiene.
Sean saw hotels throwing away soap and started collecting it. He now processes discarded bars from 8,000 hotels, makes $12 million a year, and donates soap to communities to reduce child mortality from poor hygiene.
This guy Sean makes $12 million a year by giving away used soap. And he's not just making money, he's also saving lives at the same time, thanks to one simple idea. Drinking alone in a hotel one night, he noticed a bar of soap. He calls the front desk and asks.
Hey, what happens to the soap after I use it?
And they proceed to tell him, well, we just throw it away. Then he digs deeper and finds out that millions of soap bars are thrown out every single day. Well, there's kids around the world that die from bad hygiene. So Sean pitches an idea to the hotel.
Instead of paying waste companies a ton of money by the weight of the soap that they take away, just give the soap to me and just pay me a small flat monthly fee.
And the hotel is like, sure, sounds good. The hotel saves money while Sean gets the raw material for his business. He starts in his garage shaving soap with potato peelers and melting it down into.
Fresh bars.
He does the same deal with any 8,000 more hotels, all paying him to take their soap. He then sends it to communities where it literally saves kids lives from poor hygiene. So kids stay healthy, hotels save money, and Sean proves you can build a million dollar company literally from trash.
