FOOD:
1.) Use pita bread pockets for your sandwich bread. Nixes the need for plates or forks.
2.) Pack bulk water containers and fill individual water bottles from the container. Stops the use (and landfill waste) of individual plastic bottles.
3.) After each meal, use trash bags to separate your composting materials, from your recycling materials, from your burnable materials….and then just keep adding to each bag until the trip is over. Once home, you can recycle or compost the items.
TOOLS:
1.) When bathing in the river, use bio-degradable soaps like Dr. Bronner’s. This company makes more products than ever…obviously, their traditional soaps but even shaving creams and body balms. Website is: www.drbronner.com
2.) Use a batteryless flashlight for your midnight stroll to the groover (bathroom). You can also buy batteryless radios. This company even makes a batteryless flashlight with built-in mosquito repellent—now that is a product for the green river camper! Website to find these beauties is: www.duraproflashlights.com
3.) Use re-sealable and re-usable containers for your sauces and dressings. Easy to clean and can be used tons of times before eventually recycling them. www.rubbermaid.com
4.) Just read that cigarette butts are the number one litter problem in the universe. If you do choose to smoke, bring along a small, metal container to store used butts in until there is a convenient place to trash them at the end of the trip.
TRAVEL:
1.) At the end of the river trip, have a van/trailer waiting to pick up the rafts and the guests. That way, everyone goes back to the put-in site together. Saves on multiple vehicles going back and forth.
2.) Dilution is the solution to pollution. Government agencies say not to hesitate in urinating in the river…their preference to urinating on the river’s shoreline. Remember, the same doesn’t go for your 2nd bodily function…that duty commands a groover or an outdoor toilet. There is nothing worse than leaving behind a toilet paper “garden” in a pristine environment.
3.) Use re-sealable and re-usable containers for your sauces and dressings. Easy to clean and can be used tons of times before eventually recycling them. www.rubbermaid.com
4.) Just read that cigarette butts are the number one litter problem in the universe. If you do choose to smoke, bring along a small, metal container to store used butts in until there is a convenient place to trash them at the end of the trip.
TRAVEL:
1.) At the end of the river trip, have a van/trailer waiting to pick up the rafts and the guests. That way, everyone goes back to the put-in site together. Saves on multiple vehicles going back and forth.
2.) Dilution is the solution to pollution. Government agencies say not to hesitate in urinating in the river…their preference to urinating on the river’s shoreline. Remember, the same doesn’t go for your 2nd bodily function…that duty commands a groover or an outdoor toilet. There is nothing worse than leaving behind a toilet paper “garden” in a pristine environment.
A set of useful tips on a great day.
ReplyDeleteHope everyone follows it.