{"id":5558,"date":"2016-05-04T07:18:17","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T01:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=5558"},"modified":"2016-05-04T07:18:17","modified_gmt":"2016-05-04T01:48:17","slug":"instagram-tourist-trash-holiday-hotspots-plastic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/?p=5558","title":{"rendered":"Hey Instagram Tourist, Here\u2019s What the Trash You Leave Behind Is Doing to Our Holiday Hotspots"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"container page-content\"><p><span class=\"dropcap\">I<\/span><\/p><\/div><p> \n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> have a distinct childhood travel memory. Every summer, as my family set out to make a punishingly long train journey between Miraj, my hometown in southern <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/grub\/maharashtras-biggest-celebrity\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Maharashtra <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and Banaras where my uncle lived for a brief period, our travel accomplice hidden amid mounds of hefty luggage, was a five-litre Milton water thermos.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The passage was nearly three days long, so every six to eight hours, my parents would get off at a station and replenish our water supply for the onward journey.\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The thermos would go right back on to the attic once we returned from our trip &#038; only be brought down in time for the next expedition. Or when it was sought by sundry relatives for their travels.\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As the lazy \u201980s made way for the nifty self-confidence of the \u201990s, the old flask <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">went out of fashion. In the shiny new free-market economy, the bottled water industry boomed, and Bisleri, a brand that become synonymous with packaged mineral water retailed in plastic bottles, pretty much made clunky old carafes redundant.\u00a0We too gave away our steadfast thermos; it was substituted by thousands of single-use bottles.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I often think of the thermos as I travel these days, and spot (without respite) piles of travel trash strewn about ubiquitously \u2013 in train bogeys, at highway pit stops, along historic monuments, atop mountain meadows, on city sidewalks, and by beachside shacks. As many of us in India complete a full cycle of prosperity and hyper-abundance, the thermos symbolises to me what we\u2019ve lost as a nation over these years: a precious culture of mindful thrift and temperance deeply entrenched in the way we lived, until<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> we were co-opted by the frenzied \u201cuse and throw\u201d economy of the West.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Such licentiousness by the world\u2019s most populous nation is no longer sustainable though. Unless we bring about radical changes<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in our habits, India by virtue of her sheer size is likely to pose grave challenges to the future of sustainable travel at a time when tourist trash is becoming something of a global emergency.\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Across the world, litter has overwhelmed some of our most spectacular landscapes from Leh to Langkawi and Bali to Boracay. In June this year, Nepali mountaineers collected<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatoday.in\/world\/story\/11-000-kg-garbage-four-dead-bodies-removed-from-mt-everest-in-two-month-long-cleanliness-drive-1543470-2019-06-06\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> 11 tonnes of garbage <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">from the Everest which included everything from empty oxygen canisters to shrapnel, tents and plastic bottles. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, also known as the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.org\/encyclopedia\/great-pacific-garbage-patch\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pacific Trash Vortex<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a floating heap of debris created by humans, stretching across thousands of miles in the north central Pacific ocean. This marine detritus is so gigantic that scientists have found it impossible to estimate how much rubbish it is made up of.\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Indians, with their growing penchant for globetrotting, and increased mobility among all classes of society, are likely to contribute significantly in exacerbating this crisis going forward. The World Travel and Tourism Council expects India to become the fourth largest travel economy in less than 10 years, an expansion that\u2019s largely projected to be fuelled by domestic tourists. As per WTTC figures, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/m.economictimes.com\/industry\/services\/travel\/tourism-in-india-is-booming-but-why-is-everyone-so-worried\/articleshow\/64890122.cms\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">90 per cent<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of travellers in India are Indian. But we are also touring the globe in large numbers \u2013 a mind-boggling <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/magazines\/panache\/50-mn-indians-to-travel-overseas-in-2019-world-tourism-organisation\/articleshow\/67303172.cms#targetText=According%20to%20the%20UN%20World%20Tourism%20Organisation%2C%2050%20million%20Indians,from%2023%20million%20in%202017.\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">50 million<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of us are expected to travel abroad this year as per World Tourism Organisation estimates, up from merely 23 million just two years ago. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Given these numbers, we will soon only likely be second to the footloose Chinese in ambushing global vacation spots and leaving behind our unflattering trail of refuse.\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<blockquote class=\"quote--center\"><p>The World Travel and Tourism Council expects India to become the fourth largest travel economy in less than 10 years, an expansion that\u2019s largely projected to be fuelled by domestic tourists.<\/p><\/blockquote> \n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2017, videos of Jeju International Airport overwhelmed with garbage left behind by Chinese tourists went viral. On other occasions, they\u2019ve been publicly <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/travelwireasia.com\/2018\/05\/chinese-tourists-behaving-badly-what-is-being-done\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">shamed<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for everything from throwing rubbish into the sea to wrecking corals. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Evidently, the travel habits of the Middle Kingdom don\u2019t inspire much confidence about what a throng of loud, queue jumping, social etiquette defying desis<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">might unleash upon tourist hotspots.\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Domestically the situation is already precarious. Popular hill stations like Manali have been<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">turned into dump yards during peak season. A whopping <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatoday.in\/lifestyle\/travel\/story\/tourists-in-manali-leave-over-2-000-tonnes-of-garbage-behind-in-two-months-1563264-2019-07-06\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2,000 tonnes of waste<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was left behind by the 10 lakh Indian holidaymakers who visited <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Manali over the two months of May and June 2019. In Goa, almost every beach has been vandalised by garbage cast off by tourists. In Auli meanwhile, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a pristine skiing destination in Uttarakhand, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/satire\/gupta-weddings-businessmen-indian-shaadi-ajal-atul-wedding\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">24,000 kilos<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of waste was dumped by the South Africa-based Gupta family that hosted a high-profile \u20b9200-crore wedding recently. The indifference <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">regarding our travel footprint<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, clearly cuts across all classes of society.\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to Tejas Joseph, a sustainable tourism expert, tourism and hotels in India account for about 30 per cent of waste out of the approximately 62 million tonnes we generate every year. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This, he<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/goodtourismblog.com\/2019\/06\/piling-up-india-tourism-waste-management-problem\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">says<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is a \u201cdisproportionately large volume of waste by a single sector,\u201d given that it contributes to only about nine to 10 per cent of GDP.\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To their credit, a few NGOs, civic activists, private sector stakeholders, and government bodies have been making sporadic efforts to address this emergency. The Snow Leopard Lodge in the Ladakhi village of Ulley for instance, has implemented a resident programme that levies a portion of each visitor fee to conservation. Manali is setting up a garbage power plant to burn 100 tonnes of waste every day. In Sikkim, which has been fighting the use of plastic since 1998, tourists are told <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2018\/jul\/03\/himalayan-state-sikkim-india-war-plastic-bags\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">not to bring in plastic bottles of water<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What\u2019s missing however is a long-term, strategic plan that brings all these stakeholders together to deal with the problem holistically. Also state capacity to manage the growing trash problem \u2013 75 per cent of municipal <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/people\/the-garbage-collector-poetry-in-trash\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">garbage<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in India is dumped without processing \u2013 is grossly inadequate and the government is dragging its feet on decisions such as banning single-use plastic.\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In such circumstances the onus really lies on tourists themselves to be more proactive in limiting their use of disposable plastic<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are a host of simple, almost banal-sounding steps we can all take. Carry our own food and water at least when travelling by plane \u2013 no one\u2019s going to miss skipping the unpalatable airline grub; not printing our boarding passes; not using the entirely avoidable baggage wrapping machines at airports; carrying reusable shopping bags; using our own toiletries rather than the over packaged mini soaps and shampoos that hotels give us; making responsible meal choices (like avoiding big buffets); not geo-tagging every awe-inspiring destination we visit to ensure that we keep hidden gems, well, hidden. This in particular, might be tough for many of us for whom travel is more about social signalling and humble bragging than exploration. But watch this <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Itjc14Fm-gs\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">video<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to find out how Instagram can wreak havoc on little-known hidden vistas.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Finally, and most crucially though we need to consider making substantive mindset changes in the way we think about the idea of travel. It need not be this manic, breathless exercise of tick-marking destinations propagated by the \u201c6 cities in 7 days\u201d template of <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">packaged<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/outdoors\/indian-tourist-international-travel-abroad-tourism\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">tourism<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. There\u2019s a whole new emerging trend of slow travel that puts an emphasis on making our holiday experience more immersive \u2013 seeing fewer places, but spending more time in each and connecting more deeply with local communities.\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Slow travel is both easier on the pocket and on the environment. And it helps retain the diversity of the communities and destinations that give the act of voyaging such mystique and charm in the first place. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By being just a little more conscientious about how we travel<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, we will literally be saving the goose that lays the golden eggs for us.<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tourist trash is becoming a global emergency. In Nepal, 11 tonnes of garbage  was collected from the Everest, which included everything from empty oxygen canisters to shrapnel. 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