ShaunKevin
Member
- Time of past OR future Camino
- Francés (2015)
Portuguese (2018)
Hi. I’d like to make a comment about the use and disposal of single use plastics on the CF. I was horrified beyond words about a) waste in general, particularly toilet paper and b) single use plastic bags and littering.
People, you can live life and, yes, even walk a Camino de Santiago without using single use plastic bags. They are choking our oceans and are a hazardous landfill item.
The noise factor alone in dormitories is one reason to ban them - let alone the environmental damage they cause.
The littering was so bad I felt uneasy about walking past it for 35 days. Day after day after day. It is a blight on pilgrims and utterly disrespectful to the good old cherubs of Spain.
I was thrilled to finish the CF. Mainly as to not have to endure walking past one more single use plastic bag disposed of on the ground.
Take your own cloth shopping bag for a start. Toilet paper can also be discarded of in the next town.
Rant over I need a wine.
Cheers
Shaun, CF 2016, Australia.
People, you can live life and, yes, even walk a Camino de Santiago without using single use plastic bags. They are choking our oceans and are a hazardous landfill item.
The noise factor alone in dormitories is one reason to ban them - let alone the environmental damage they cause.
The littering was so bad I felt uneasy about walking past it for 35 days. Day after day after day. It is a blight on pilgrims and utterly disrespectful to the good old cherubs of Spain.
I was thrilled to finish the CF. Mainly as to not have to endure walking past one more single use plastic bag disposed of on the ground.
Take your own cloth shopping bag for a start. Toilet paper can also be discarded of in the next town.
Rant over I need a wine.
Cheers
Shaun, CF 2016, Australia.