Top single use plastic free holidays

Although many of our holiday companies and customers have been practising reduced plastic lifestyles for a long time, they can’t always guarantee that everyone around them is doing the same. For example, a walking holiday company might advise you to bring your own refillable water bottle, but the local inn might insist on plastic beer glasses for the garden. Or the hotel is unwilling to let go of their mini toiletries bottles, plastic bin liners or laundry bags. Below are some holidays that have worked hard across the board to pretty much eliminate single use plastic. Neither we nor they are claiming perfection, but near as dammit. The map is small, but this is our call to action for others to join us in our war against plastic.

“I think that Egypt recycles a lot more rubbish than the UK does, as it is another way to make an income here. There is a great group called Don't Mess With Dahab, as well as many fab souls who live here, deeply committed to making Dahab plastic free. Polystyrene trays were used by a lot of safari companies here, which drives me insane. It is not that hard to use real plates and cutlery instead. I campaigned to stop these horrid trays being used at the local Friday Market and some members of Sea Shepherd set up a stall offering rental plates… which was brilliant.”