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Thursday 17 December 2020
Do an online search for plastic-free travel and Google will throw up more than 800 million answers (though we recommend Ecosia if you’re interested in minimising the footprint of your internet searching). It’s no surprise that we want to limit our plastic consumption when we travel – figures from the WWF report that the arrival of tourists in the Mediterranean each summer leads to a 40 per cent spike in plastic entering the sea. These figures are similar in other parts of the world, especially those that have little infrastructure to deal with plastic waste, and we’ve all seen the videos of where that plastic ends up (in the stomachs of turtles and whales or wrapped around fins and wings of dolphins and seabirds). The good news is that it’s never been easier to find alternatives to plastic when we’re on the move.