Very rarely do we have waste problems; we have creative thinking problems.—Kathryn Kellogg

The policy of zero waste simply means that human activities must be monitored on an individual as well as a public level to reduce to zero through creative ways the harmful human imprint on the environment patches humans inhabit or visit. In one's own native land, ideally one is expected to be vigilant or made so to mitigate the harm one causes to the surroundings. However, it's a psychologically adaptive trait of humans that in an alien land they tend to go lax in their consumeristic attitude.

The need for awareness about zero-waste human activities originates when humans shun their community role and hanker after individualistic pursuits of ease, comfort and self-sufficiency. When humans think that their seemingly minuscule individualistic actions don't bear any impact on their environment, collective life or existence on this earthly abode, actually, they are the victim of a fatal fallacy of ignoring the butterfly effect - faintest tweaks in initial conditions can cause unwieldy ripple effects in complex systems like weather or economies. Also, they are ignorant of human interconnectedness as stressed by the South African philosophy of Ubuntu that says: I am because we are.

On the global scale, rich and developed countries mostly belonging to Europe, America and the Arabian Peninsula face the menace of travel waste, as they are the ultimate destination of students, tourists, businessmen and pilgrims. The global tourism industry is experiencing a boosting bump owing to falling air travel prices........

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