gittiharre
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- 2022 Camino Portuguese and Primitivo
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Yes bought Marseillaise Soap for that reason. Is Emirates up with bio fuel? If not which airline is between NZ and Europe?Inter-continental air travel is the biggie. Choose a carrier that is at least making noises about trying to using sustainable biofuels in the future (carriers who are involved in the testing studies and have had demonstration flights, or have its use as an objectice in their sustainability policy). This Wiki article has a list at the end containing this info. If you live in Europe take the train. Of course walking from your own front door would be best and totally authentic!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviation_biofuel
In terms of gear, just getting good value and usage out of it is as important as how or what it's made if. Buy good stuff, from good manufactures, not made in sweatshops, made from sustainable sourced materials, keep it, keep hiking, keep using it, don't get it "upgraded" for fashion or vanity until it is shot.
In terms of consumables, a bar of olive oil Marseilles soap in a reuseable tin does for showering, laundry, shampoo. Go au natural and leave out the beauty products.
And we use an electric vehicle in NZ, some compensation for air travel....I do plant trees! Live in NZ. My family is in Europe....hard to avoid Air travel and at least my holidays involve walking once I get there.
Yes I agree. Dumping is a bad idea as the stuff is already there! My approach has been similar to yours. Just cross with myself for having acquired some of this stuff in the first place. And I just bought new gortex boots only to discover Sympatex option at Vaude a week later. Grrrr. Basically the question at the point of purchase to ask oneself" How will we/the planet get rid of this one day?" Great anti consumer strategy!Most of our kit is still in use from our first Caminos (2009 and 2010 onwards). We don't 'upgrade' it. Boots are leather and have needed replacing.
Water bottles are aluminium and although we do buy bottled water we get a very large size each afternoon after walking, drink about half and fill our bottles for next day. Then we make sure that the bottles are left for recycling.
Shopping, a small folding bag not plastic bags. We do carry a few freezer type thin bags for food storage but re-use until they are no longer any good and then use them for rubbish. We do this at home anyway.
Basically we can try to use less but it is not really possible to use none at all and it would be bad to dump things because of their plastic content, better IMO to wear it out first.
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