What is garbage-free travel?
A closer look at our zero-waste travel goals.
We’re taking The Garbage Awareness Project on the road! While traveling through the U.S., Mexico, and Central America, we’ll be striving for garbage-free living.
What is garbage-free travel?
We’re striving to reduce our garbage–from plastic to processed foods–while traveling and living in our van. Our society and more specifically, traveling, is heavily focused on convenience. (Think, gas stations and airports.) We have quick access to about anything we want, when we want it. Although this is fantastic in theory, convenience almost always equals single-use plastics that are terrible for the planet and processed ingredients equally as terrible for our bodies. We’re hoping to live free from:
Single-use plastics. That means most product packaging in the middle of a grocery store–think chip bags, granola wrappers, and frozen food bags. Any plastic packaging that you would only use once and throw away, we will try to avoid.
Why? Plastics are the hardest thing to ‘get rid of’ or recycle. They stay on the planet forever. Never decomposing, only breaking down into smaller pieces and infiltrating into our eco-system, making it into our drinking water and food chain.
Processed ingredients. To put it simply, if we can’t pronounce the ingredient on the back of the item, we don’t want it. We want real food. Lucky for us, when we avoid single-use packaged foods, we’re also avoiding almost all processed food options in the store. It’s a win, win.
Why? Yes, processed foods can be tasty, they’re made that way to be irresistible. Exactly, ‘made that way’, not by nature. We’re investing in real food to nourish for the long-term and avoid health problems in the future. AND best of all, we feel great eating this way!
Why are we doing this?
Our mission with this project is to spread awareness about reducing the garbage we’re putting into the environment and also our bodies. This isn’t only our goal while living in our stationary home but everywhere we go. It’s a new challenge and we can’t wait to take it on!
