I forgot to mention in my "travel is bad" post that there were a few products that I absolutely could not have done without in my travels, both of which are totally eco-good:
1) My maya wrap sling. Overburdened mamas with strollers glared at me in envy all over the place. ha! No cobblestone problems for me!!! Also good for wiping snotty noses in the absence of tissue.
2) My diva cup. I went through a whole period using no back-up pads at all, and didn't have one single little leak at all. (The lack of back-up pads was due to the fact that my period hit in Portugal and I didn't really relish the thought of trying to decipher Portuguese packaging to get the right thing, and I kept forgetting to ask our lovely hostess.) Anyway, the period was exceptionally easy to deal with even while travelling. LOVE the diva cup. Love love love it. My wee little girl (who would not let me go to the bathroom alone ever) was slightly concerned when she saw me putting it in, but she got over it and enjoyed commenting "mummy change her cup!" after a day or so. That was fun.
Sunday, September 30, 2007
It's not just the emissions...
...that make travelling not eco-good.
It's the disposable diapers. And the non-local packaged snack food. And the duplicates of things you buy because its predecessor was left on a train. And the cheap little toys (probably made in China and enhanced with extra lead) you buy before you go because your child's current batch don't hold her attention for long enough and you can't pack enough of them in a carry-on. And the plastic bags you use to keep your shampoo separate from your sippy cups and your aforementioned little toys all together and findable in your carry-on, and the little tiny containers you buy because the asinine security regulations on planes require everything to be in bottles of 100ml or less. And the teensy little plastic containers that keep all your airplane food separate, plus the plastic packaging required individually for your knife, fork, spoon, napkin, sugar, cream-substitute (barf), plus the larger bag that holds all those little bags together, plus the bag they give you to put all the bits in when you're done. Or, if you're on one of those discount airlines (cough easyJet cough) that don't give you food, it's the plastic-packaged Marks & Spenser's pasta salads you buy before you get on the plane. (Those are pretty good btw.)
Yeah, travelling isn't eco-good at all. I have much to atone for.
It's the disposable diapers. And the non-local packaged snack food. And the duplicates of things you buy because its predecessor was left on a train. And the cheap little toys (probably made in China and enhanced with extra lead) you buy before you go because your child's current batch don't hold her attention for long enough and you can't pack enough of them in a carry-on. And the plastic bags you use to keep your shampoo separate from your sippy cups and your aforementioned little toys all together and findable in your carry-on, and the little tiny containers you buy because the asinine security regulations on planes require everything to be in bottles of 100ml or less. And the teensy little plastic containers that keep all your airplane food separate, plus the plastic packaging required individually for your knife, fork, spoon, napkin, sugar, cream-substitute (barf), plus the larger bag that holds all those little bags together, plus the bag they give you to put all the bits in when you're done. Or, if you're on one of those discount airlines (cough easyJet cough) that don't give you food, it's the plastic-packaged Marks & Spenser's pasta salads you buy before you get on the plane. (Those are pretty good btw.)
Yeah, travelling isn't eco-good at all. I have much to atone for.
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