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Earth Day 2011 at Franklin Victorian Bed and Breakfast, Sparta, Wisconsin

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Franklin Victorian Bed and Breakfast is a Certified Travel Green Destination thru the Wisconsin Department of Tourism for our green practices with a green score of 86. Today, Franklin Victorian Bed and Breakfast remains committed to continually seeking ways to be kinder to the environment while pampering guest in luxury. While the Franklin Victorian Bed and Breakfast strives to deliver exceptional comfort and service to each guest, it continues to incorporate newer products and eco-friendly practices to do so in a greener manner to ensure that the natural beauty of  Wisconsin is preserved for future generations to visit.

In being environmentally proactive is to help guests experience an area’s natural beauty, unique wildlife and history.

 Franklin Victorian Bed and Breakfast is committed to helping our guests indulge in the amenities offered at the Franklin Victorian Bed and Breakfast guilt free, as a means to renew and restore their own personal energy often depleted from the demands of everyday life and to better able them to make greener decisions in their own lives.
  

Franklin Victorian Bed and Breakfast Environmental Mission Statement
We are committed to:

Making environmental considerations part of our everyday business decision- making process including but not limited to purchasing products made from recycled materials, purchasing energy star rated appliances, buying local, and buying products in bulk and supporting the local community;

Soliciting feedback and suggestions from our guests regarding the B&B’s environmental practices;

Green Practices at Franklin Victorian Bed and Breakfast:
The list of environmentally-friendly practices in use at Franklin Victorian Bed and Breakfast is long, ranging from widespread use of compact fluorescent to donation and recycling of old towels, clothing, re-cycle shampoo and soaps to “Clean the World” national charities which we are partner with.

Purchase and use of energy efficient appliances

Recycle printer supplies

Donation of old linens and towels for re-use at Animal Shelters, old bathrobes for local Women’s Domestic Violence Shelter

Recycling area for newspapers, plastic, glass, and cans

Post placards to give options that are available for guest participation in being “green”

Use of all “Shaklee” cleaning and laundry products

Use of environmentally friendly packaging for guest room amenities

Towel Program – change towels upon request by guest

Use reusable cups for coffee and beverages in common areas

Purchase locally grown, organic products and bulk products where possible

And many more…..be green and help our Earth!

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Franklin Victorian Bed and Breakfast Sparta, Wisconsin helps Clean the World

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Franklin Victorian Bed and Breakfast helps Clean the World. Guest room soaps and bottled amenities (shampoos, conditioners, lotions and gels) will be recycled for worldwide distribution to stop the spread of preventable diseases

Sparta, Wisconsin and ORLANDO, Fla. – March 23, 2011 – Franklin Victorian Bed and Breakfast has partnered with Orlando, Fla.-based non-profit organization Clean the World (http://www.cleantheworld.org/) to collect and recycle hotel soaps, shampoos, conditioners, lotions and gels to help fight the global spread of preventable diseases. The soaps collected at Franklin Victorian Bed and Breakfast will be shipped to Clean the World for recycling and distribution around the world.

Clean the World is the largest global recycler of hotel amenities, and in just two years of operation has distributed more than 8 million bars of soap to children and families in the United States, Haiti and more than 40 countries worldwide.

Each day 9,000 children around the world die from diseases such as acute respiratory illness and diarrheal diseases that can be prevented by washing with bar soap. Clean the World has a mission to put soap in the hands of people who need it most to improve hygiene and sanitation conditions.

Clean the World has partnered with nearly 770 hotel and bed-and-breakfast properties in North America to provide soaps and bottled amenities to people in need. While doing so, the organization has also fulfilled a valuable environmental mission by diverting an estimated 550 tons of hotel waste from polluting landfills in the United States and Canada.

“We always welcome the addition of bed and breakfasts to our Clean the World hospitality partnership program,” says Shawn Seipler, executive director and co-founder at Clean the World. “As a certified Travel Green Wisconsin destination, The Franklin Victorian B&B has a proud history of putting environmental concern into action. Guests can be confident that the soaps and shampoos they leave behind will be recycled and put to good use. They’re literally turning trash into treasure for people in need.”

About Franklin Victorian Bed and Breakfast Award-Winning, The Franklin Victorian Bed and Breakfast Inn in Sparta, WI, “The Bicycling Capital of America”. Come experience a refreshing change from typical hotel lodging. Our inviting accommodations and abiding sense of hospitality promise welcome, rest, and renewal to one and all.

Jennifer and Steve Dunn, Innkeepers and Owners
The Franklin Victorian Bed and Breakfast
220 East Franklin Street
Sparta, Wisconsin 54656
Phone (608) 366-1427
Toll Free (888) 594-FVBB (3822)
www.FranklinVictorianBB.com
email- innkeeper@FranklinVictorianBB.com

About Clean the World

Clean the World is committed to reducing the waste created by discarded soap and shampoo products and collects these items from hotels to be recycled and distributed to domestic homeless shelters and impoverished people worldwide, helping to prevent deaths caused by hygiene-related illnesses. Clean the World Foundation, Inc. is a non-profit, 501(c) (3) tax-exempt charitable organization. For more information visit: http://www.cleantheworld.org/. Text CLEAN to 20222 to donate $10 to help Clean the World.

Contacts: Matt Gomez, communications director to become a partner,
Clean the World, Orlando, Fla.
(407) 421-9365 cell.
mgomez@cleantheworld.org

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