FOOD:

1.) Use pita bread pockets for your sandwich bread. Nixes the need for plates or forks.

2.) Pack bulk water containers & fill individual water bottles from the container. Stops the use (and landfill waste) of individual plastic bottles.

3.) After each meal, use trash bags to separate your composting materials, from your recycling materials, from your burnable materials....and then just keep adding to each bag until the trip is over. Once home, you can recycle or compost the items.

TOOLS:

1.) When bathing in the river, use bio-degradable soaps like Dr. Bronner's. This company makes more products than ever...obviously, their traditional soaps but even shaving creams & body balms.

2.) Use a batteryless flashlight for your midnight stroll to the groover (outdoor toilet). You can also buy batteryless radios. There is a company that even makes a batteryless flashlight with built-in mosquito repellent-now that is a product for the green river camper! Durapro flashlights makes many of these batteryless flashlights.

3.) Use re-sealable & re-usable containers for your sauces & dressings. Easy to clean & can be often used tons of times before eventually recycling them. A company like Rubbermaid is a great resource for these twist & seal containers.

4.) Just read that cigarette butts are the number one litter problem in the universe. If you do select to smoke, bring along a small, metal container to store used butts in until there is a convenient place to trash them at the end of the trip.

TRAVEL:

1.) At the end of the river trip, have a van/trailer waiting to pick up the rafts & the guests. That way, virtually virtually everyone goes back to the put-in site together. Saves on multiple vehicles going back & forth.

2.) Dilution is the solution to pollution. Government agencies say not to hesitate in urinating in the river...their preference to urinating on the river's shoreline. Remember, the same doesn't go for your 2nd bodily function...that duty commands a groover or an outdoor toilet. There is nothing worse than leaving behind a toilet paper "garden" in a pristine environment.