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Reduce and reuse on your next camping and hiking trips! In this episode, we’ll talk about:

• where to get gear, whether secondhand, rented or new
• the creative reuse challenges associated with stoves and lanterns
• reducing food packaging waste
• preparing for long-distance hikes
• finding ways to creatively reuse at your campsite
• what to do with damaged camping gear
• trash at music festivals where people camp

Camping and Hiking Gear – Buying Secondhand, New or Getting Free

• Geartrade
• GearX
• REI’s used gear website
• REI’s products made with recycled materials
• Faire Child – children’s raingear from recycled plastic bottles
• Patagonia’s Worn Wear website

Creative Reuse Ideas at the Campsite

Cinnamon rolls baked in an orange peel

Store first aid supplies or spices in pieces of plastic straw

Make your head lamp into a lantern

Make a toilet paper holder from a coffee container

Companies Who Make Items from Recycled Tents

• crackpacs
• Billygoats and Raincoats – raincoats made from recycled tents – in Wales
• Green Guru
• WiTHiNTENT

Long-Distance Hiking

Check out this Zero Waste Countdown interview with two long-distance hikers who incorporated many zero-waste and creative reuse tips into their trip.

Camping at Music Festivals

A video came out this year of the Reading Festival with shocking visuals of thousands of tents going to landfill:

• Love Your Tent campaign
• Cardboard tents

Some of my Family’s Camping Memories

Show Details

• Script for this podcast episode about reducing your impact when camping and hiking (not a transcript but gives the main ideas)
• The Trashmagination podcast theme music is Kitchen from the Marian Circle Drum Brigade.