In these times of economic struggle and concern for the environment, it is no surprise that eco-tours, volunteer travel and stay-cations (stay at home during the holiday or within their borders) are becoming increasingly popular. JTB Corp., a leading Japanese travel agency, announced the results of their research on environmental awareness during the trip. According to the results, 70 percent of respondents were aware of the eco-friendly activities on the trips. There are dozens of things the average individual can do to extend the green travel movement.
When viewing the tourist spots, map and brochure racks to refrain from too many handouts. Decide which one you really want to know more about, and leave the rest where they are for others to enjoy. When you read the materials that you take with you, consider leaving them in a hotel or restaurant lobbies, waiting rooms or on one of their tables in order to extend product life. If for some reason the material was destroyed, be sure to put them in the recycling system -. Only becomes garbage when we send it to landfill
Many hotels offer personal products in small baskets in their rooms. If you can not consume some of these, take the container with you if there is anything left that is still useful, because the staff has to throw everything open, even if you just used. In fact, a fan of the hotel are required to remove an item whether used or not! So, in this situation is May be wise to them and donate them to a homeless shelter, where people can benefit from a smaller tank.
Those plastic cups in hotel rooms are both reusable and recyclable ... However, you can easily prevent this waste makes reusable cup with you. The same reusable cup can prevent a lot to take a drink from the vessel ended up in the landfill during any trip.
Be sure to ask questions when you travel, as it was in the restaurant is environmentally take food containers and buying local food or hotel use recycled content in their products, if the house is available to customers for recycling, whether their restaurant employs organic recycling programs, or you can rent a hybrid car instead of a regular gas guzzler.
These types of questions will lead companies to become more aware of buying because they see their sponsors interested in supporting this movement toward positive change.
