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Zero-Waste Adventure Planned For Yellowstone Park
Editor's Note: This news item was retrieved and first published through The Mic Network's website.
The Mic Network reports that Colorado-based Natural Habitat Adventures will conduct the first zero-waste trip in July, 2019, namely a wildlife safari to Yellowstone National Park. Guests will be challenged to refuse, recycle, reuse, upcycle and compost over 99% of their waste. The outfitter became the world’s first 100% carbon-neutral travel company in 2007.
The "zero waste" concept will include all guest-related activities throughout the trip, but will exclude personal hygiene or items legally required to be deposited in a landfill. Natural Habitat hopes to expand the concept worldwide, and inspire fellow international tour operators to adopt the eco-conscious model.
“We’re already looking at places like southern Africa,” Court Whelan, Natural Habitat’s director of sustainability and conservation, told Mic. “We see this as part of the future of conservation travel. We do roughly 700 trips per year and this is one of them. Although we couldn’t turn all 700 trips into zero-waste by 2019, this is an investment into understanding.”
View the full article by Julia Eskins with more on zero-waste trips, here.