Why We Are Covering Plastics as a Travel Beat
Photo Credit: Plastic plays an enormous role in the travel industry. Unsplash / Jonathan Chng
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Everywhere you look in travel, you see it. It touches every end of the travel experience. And that's not good. So why wouldn't Skift focus on plastics as a core area of coverage? You're going to want to read these stories.
We at Skift have always been aggressively skeptical about travel companies that preach sustainability. In theory, sustainability is great, but the term is largely used as lip service and marketing pablum, while little progress is made.
Now the specific problem of plastics is peaking and demanding attention, not just from travel companies but from consumers. It’s time to hold everyone accountable while photos of beaches piled high with plastics, and videos of wildlife dying from ingesting them, fill our social media f
