
Camp and Hike with Less Impact
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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
Camping at Music Festivals
A video came out this year of the Reading Festival with shocking visuals of thousands of tents going to landfill:
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.