Summer breaks and plastic waste: The quest for plastic-free tourism

Much of our daily consumption features the use of plastics. However, single-use plastics (SUPs) have come to play a significant part in the environmental crisis and have contributed to unsustainable ways of living.

As a team of nine interdisciplinary researchers at Lancaster University, we are working on a three-year UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)-funded research project looking at how plastic packaging is integrated, in often complex and less obvious ways, across peoples’ everyday lives. At this time of year, when holidays and tourism (home and abroad) are on everyone’s minds, it can be a particularly challenging time for people to follow their best intentions to keep their plastic waste down.

Follow the link to read the Sense and Sustainability article.