Travelling With zero or Very Low Waste

I've noticed that travelling and creating zero or very low waste can be easier at times and harder at others. For example in areas where there are no zero waste or packaging-free shops, its not possible to buy loose dried food like rice or lentils etc. In these situations, I tend to go for the biggest most organic version possible, or else I buy something in cardboard instead of plastic if the option is there. I find when I travel and stay places where I can prepare and cook my own food, it saves so much money. Lately I've bought way more takeaways than I had in a long while sadly. Speaking of preparing my own food, last time I was on a coach, when I took the journey from Brighton through London to Durham, I made my own lunch. I had bought some food wraps, so I made a houmous and cucumber sandwich and took some cookies. Sadly the cookies were in plastic inside a cardboard box, but it was still way cheaper and tastier than going to somewhere in the coach station. The huge advantage to a lot of zero waste things, is that they're so compact which makes it easier to carry around. For example, I put my soap bar shampoo bar toothpaste tabs toothbrush comb and deodorant in one pocket of my backpack. The other thing I like is the fact that although you tend to get the clinking of jars or tins or whatever, it's so much quieter and more pleasant than hearing the rustle of plastic bags. I take my own cotton cloth shopping bags with me when I go shopping. Soap nuts are so useful as well for laundry, because you can use 5 of them 3 or 4 times in the little bag provided then when you're done using those 5, you can compost them. Sadly though not everywhere has compost facilities or gardens, so most things like that end up still in landfill or in the recycling places.

Restaurants And Takeaways

I've noticed that in some places like Brighton London and Bristol have vegan restaurants and cafes and probably more options when it comes to restaurants and takeaways in general. In so many other places however, I either have to ask or make a guess that some of the vegetarian options happen to be vegan. In a lot of places that are not big cities, there are far fewer vegan options than meat or vegetarian. I don't see why, because you can make an alternative to pretty much anything, so I think there should be a similar amount of choice. Speaking of which, I went to a Pizza Hut recently and discovered that they have started doing vegan pizzas and will be having vegan pasta dishes in the future. The weird thing is though that only some of the pizzas are available at all the restaurants. I wonder if this is also the case in the American Pizza Hut.