With so many guests entering and exiting hotels on a daily basis for business travel, family vacations or personal time, it’s no surprise that personal items are left behind on a regular basis. In many cases, these missing goods in hotel rooms make their way into soiled linen bins. From there, they go by cart or truck either to hotel on-premise or central laundries, or to an outsource textile services provider’s plant. So what exactly happens to all those lost items?
 
Typically, the next stop is a soil-sorting area in one of the laundries noted above. The ...