Turn Hotel Linen Waste Into Community Impact

Hotels generate over 3,800,000 kg of linen waste per year.

Every blanket, towel, and sheet you discard could provide comfort and dignity to those in need — while helping the planet.

Register Your Hotel

Give your linens a
second life.

Linens N Love helps hotels transform previously-wasted linens into meaningful community contributions. Our seamless service connects your discarded linens with shelters and community organizations nearby, making it effortless to reduce waste and support people in need.

Your participation means less landfill waste, more social good, and a smoother path to sustainability — no major changes to your operations required.

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How it Works

Tell us what’s
available

After you register, we’ll send you check-in nudges every few weeks for you to let us know when you’d like linens to be picked up.

We coordinate the
pickup

We match you with a local community organization and handle the logistics so you don’t have to.

You create impact
with ease

Your linens are picked up, put to good use in local orgs, and your team can feel good knowing they made a difference — with no extra hassle.

What Hotels Can Expect

  • Regular pickups, effortless process: You store the linens as usual; every few weeks, we send a check-in email with a form to see if you would like us to schedule a pick-up at a time that’s convenient for you.
  • Local impact: Once you indicate availability, we’ll help you reach out to multiple organizations in your area. We handle all the calling, emails, and scheduling with community organizations so you don’t have to.
  • Simple sustainability: Be among the first hotels to advertise a zero linen waste policy, offering a unique & bespoke storytelling engagement opportunity for guests.
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Sustainability Matters To Your Guests​​

Hotels produce a lot of waste – over 3,800,000 kg per year for linens alone – andconsumers
are demanding sustainable practices.

of travelers say they would be
more likely to book eco-friendly accommodations ​
Across 29,000 respondents from 30 countries in 2019​
of Americans are willing to pay
more for sustainable brands​
This number is even higher with US young adults.
of consumers feel strongly that
companies should help
improve the environment​
Across 30,000 consumers from 60 countries in 2023​
Linens prematurely discarded​
These linens generate additional carbon
emissions and greenhouse gasses as they
are incinerated in landfills.​
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Frequently Asked Questions

We accept bed sheets, pillowcases, towels, terry cloth items, blankets, fitted sheets, and flat sheets. We ask that these be free of large tears or holes, as they will be passed on to real people in need at shelters and should be for dignified purposes. Items can have light stains, but should be usable.

Linens are distributed to our network of partner shelters, including animal rescue centers, children’s homes, domestic violence shelters, and homeless family centers. Depending on demand, some items may be recycled into other products or materials.

We partner with a variety of shelters and charities that have a demonstrated need for linens. These include animal rescue centers, children’s homes, domestic violence shelters, and homeless family centers. When multiple organizations request linens, we prioritize responsive organizations with a positive track record. 

Practically none! The turnkey nature of our solution gives you sustainability and social impact with little to no change to your operations. Our member hotels simply notify us when they have a large supply of linens available, then we collect them from your loading bay or concierge desk rather than you sending staff to throw them into the dumpster. We ask that you keep the linens in bags or boxes for the shelters’ convenience.

Currently, we operate primarily in the United States, Singapore, Taiwan, Canada, Japan, Mexico, United Kingdom, India, Sri Lanka, and Pakistan. However, we’re continuously expanding our reach. If your hotel is outside our current service areas, please contact us to discuss potential options.

Our nonprofit covers the upfront labor cost to coordinate pick-ups for your hotel. We spend our funding on the labor of outreach, scheduling, communication, and confirmation — work we front with our own time, effort, and resources before you ever contribute.

We provide this service upfront, without charging anything in advance. Once the pickup is completed and your linens are successfully transferred, you’ll receive a link to contribute and decide what this service was worth to your property.

We’re a small nonprofit, so we trust that participating hotels act responsibly and honestly according to their budgets. For context, hotel staff would typically spend 3–5 labor hours to coordinate a single pickup if managing it internally. Our streamlined system helps save that time — and keeps usable linens out of landfills. If you’re unhappy with the service, you don’t pay — there is no risk and no obligation.

At the moment, we do not issue tax donation receipts for this program. 
However, if you represent a corporate sponsor or larger hotel interested in creating a formal social impact partnership that may involve donation receipts, please reach out to us at info/at/linensnlove/org.
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If you represent a corporate sponsor or larger hotel interested in creating a formal social impact partnership that may involve donation receipts, please reach out to us at info/at/linensnlove/org.
(Please replace [at] with @ and [dot] with . — this helps protect our inbox from spam bots!)

You’re in good company.