Sometimes the waste in our society drives me nuts. Sometimes I don't even notice it. I believe I experienced the latter sentence first with hotel soaps -- not even recognizing how much waste is hurled onto the garbage heap.

The cool thing is that Derreck Kayongo did notice. And he acted -- creating a nonprofit called the Global Soap Project, which collects soap bars from hotels and sends them to the developing world to help with the hygiene issues there.

I was lucky enough to have lunch with Derreck and his wife Sarah a year or so ago. Two inspiring people now trying to simply collect and reuse the 2.6 million bars of soap that hotels in the U.S. throw away each year. Yes, I said 2.6 million. Crazy, right?