You are like me, if you had have felt bad seeing the heap of waste i a corner by the side of a beautiful valley or a serene waterfall and if not, this article if for you !!
While i was taking a walk in the nature, I saw a lot of wrappers, plastic and glass bottles and other garbage. How sad it is that you are looking at the beautiful scenery around you and suddenly you see the things spoiling the nature. More sad is. it's not the people there, that are doing it. It's the tourist visiting the place that do that harm.
A big question arise here! Is this what you return to the mother nature ?? All the year you wait for your vacation, plan your trip to the cool and peaceful place in the world and then you go there, littering here and there and spoiling it in a very bad way, when you know there is nobody coming to clean it.
This is so sick of people I believe. Imagine if everybody on this planet start doing this and all you end up walking in garbage everywhere and no place to escape to. Not your Himalayas, not you Goa beaches or anywhere. What would your vacation mean then?? What would be you escaping and escaping where ?
If questions like this doesn't make you think of the things you knowingly and unknowingly do to the nature, you better start questioning.
I was thinking of writing this long back, while I was actually witnessing this but then I wanted to see, what actually people are doing and how good people are redeeming that. Here's a few thing I would like to share of what not to do while travelling to nature.
Avoid buying water bottles
I met a few, who are careful enough about the things they were using. The surprising one was avoiding buying of sealed water bottle. The simple reason behind it is, the more bottle you buys , the more waste is created. Once you are done drinking water, all you are left with is empty bottle that you have to throw as you can't carry it everywhere.
My advice here would be, always carry a bottle with you. Even if you haven't, buy one and reuse it as much as you can. Try refilling your bottle from some local water points and save a lot of waste happening. Unless you don;t have any other choice, dispose it in a proper dustbin .
take your shopping bag while going out
When you are planning to go somewhere, always carry a torte bag or any other bag with you. So that while you think of roaming around , and might find something to buy for. say eatables or any gifts or souvenirs for your loved ones, avoid taking plastic or even paper bags . Remember, most of the trees are cut to make paper only.
No harm in picking some bottles here and there
Imagine you are walking in the nature and you find a Rs 100 note lying there. What would you do ?? Pick it up and keep it most probably. Then why not pick a bottle and put it in a proper dustbin ?!! Because it has no monetary profit in it ?! But what about a great pleasure in making nature come back to normal.This will keep the destinations of your vacation for long.
Take part in beaches and river cleaning
It's not everybody's thing to realise their moral duty towards nature. Some fuckers find it their right to pollute the nature just because they pay taxes and think they have already paid for this all cleaning. So , people like us, who actually care for nature has to come forward and repair it. So whenever you get a chance, go for initiatives like beach cleaning or river cleaning. These are the urgent requirements of now.
Always use public transport
if you have been to Dharmshala, Mcleodganj , Shimla or anywhere like, you must be knowing how crowded and over populated these places have become. I myself was in a 2 hour traffic jam while in Mcleodganj , can you imagine that ???? But these things are happening. It is again sad to see, that the things your were escaping with, are actually the things that you are creating. There are ample of public transport to reach such places, which would help decrease the pollution and traffic too.