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World Cleanup Day: How to ditch plastic and other sustainable travel tips
Updated On: 17 September, 2022 04:26 PM IST | Mumbai | Nascimento Pinto
Tourism is not only about promoting scenic locations but also about preserving them. Amid the Covid-19 pandemic and the rising need for sustainable travel, three Mumbaikars point out how plastic is playing spoilsport and why people need to research more when they travel
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On one of her many travels in in Uttarakhand, Adithi Muralidhar spotted a Rusty Cheeked Scimatar Babbler in garbage, the sight of which irks her. Photo Courtesy: Adithi Muralidhar
It was on a trip to Turkey in September 2018 with her husband and friends that Mumbaikar Khushbu Merchant first took stock of the amount of plastic she was carrying with her. They ended up using and throwing a lot of plastic bottles for water, cups and forks too. She explains, “The usage of water bottles was major. I remember on this one day between the six of us, we had close to 10 different sizes of plastic bottles that we had used.”
While she was always conscious about her environment footprint locally, where she avoided using plastic bags at the neighbourhood vegetable shop, this was different. “I realised I need to take major steps towards practicising sustainability while travelling,” she adds. From her next trip, which was to Germany, she started carrying a foldable cutlery set and good quality water bottles labelled with names and that was the beginning of her sustainable journey.
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