Originally Posted by GPSFlyer

I know a person who is a Marriott Manager and one time I asked her this very question, it was referring to the soap bars (not the shampoo) and I asked what happend to all the 1/2 used bars of soap. She said they had "buckets full of them" in housekeeping. Apparently they get donated somewhere and then melted down to make new bars of soap. She did mention that one hotel she worked at before actually re-used them, the bars were shredded into soap-dust and then used for washing of the towels as laundry detergent. So my belief is they are (or could be) often RECYCLED..