No single Use of Plastic

Contes Asia Travel supports  not to use a single plastic for travel. We aim to educate poeple on the importance of using reusable water bottles of bamboo or steel instead of buying and using plastic bottles. It is better for the traveler, the community they visit and for the environment.

CLEAN WATER Drinking tap water in India, Nepal and Sri Lanka might make you sick. It is often contaminated by microscopic critters that can cause diarrhea, abdominal cramps or worse. So most travelers now buy packaged bottled water, which has huge environmental impact as well as being expensive and possibly unhealthy due to micro-plastic in bottles.

At Contes Asia We request you to clean your own water and use your own reusable water bottle of Lifestraw. We also identify hotels and operators those support no single use of plastic.

Why we should do that?

To avoid creating a trail of plastic water bottles everywhere you go

To save money and time

It is very simple and try to be the change if you want to help the planet to remain clean and sustainable.

It is a simple process as you can carry a re-useable bottle and a method to clean the local water in case you need to use the local tap water. There are many bottles you can choose from we suggest the lifestraw bottles.

 

There are also many ways to clean your water:

Many hotels offer kettles in your room where you can boil the water first.

  • Portable aqua tablets are easy and cheap and available in all sporting, farmacies and travel stores. They take about 30 minutes to clean the water.
  • There are many pumps you can choose from such as First Need which work great.
  • Use Lifestraw water bottles which are a bit costly but very effective. In this bottle they have sell different types of filters. LONG LASTING: The membrane microfilter lasts up to 1,000 gal (4,000 L) – about five years of daily use. Carbon filter lasts up to 26 gallons (100 L) – about two months. SAVES WASTE: The membrane microfilter lasts the equivalent to 8,000 single use plastic water bottles.