So that you can help save the earth while exploring it.
It was the shoes that did me in.
I’ve traveled to all kinds of wonderful places where keeping things clean is, quite honestly, pointless or impossible: Tegucigalpa, Honduras, so impoverished and crime-ridden as to be named the murder capital of the world; the countryside in China, where the homes are sometimes caves and the stenches rose from the shower drains in the nicest hotels; the countryside in Uganda, where your meal is cooked over an open fire and running water is likely to come out of the tap brown, if it’s available at all. I’ve had almost every vaccine in the book for my trips.
The point? I’m not super prissy. I can hike for six days without a shower and pee outside.
But when searching for zero-waste travel tips, I was really stuck on options for shoes. I couldn’t get past putting my shoes directly into my luggage without some sort of barrier between them and my clean clothes. I mean, look at all the places these shoes have *been.* Plastic bags worked, but that’s not exactly green.
The quest for a more environmentally friendly way to manage household trash, however, led me to a solution for shoes. Bagito’s reusable cloth trash can liners didn’t stand up well to liquid refuse (for that, try Seventh Generation’s recycled bags)…
