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Boosting Rural Tourism through Sustainable Waste Management: A Step towards Green Tourism
Summary
Researchers examine how rapid growth in rural tourism is intensifying single-use plastic waste pollution in natural areas, proposing waste-reduction strategies centered on reducing, reusing, and recycling non-biodegradable materials to reconcile tourism's economic benefits with environmental protection.
The growing industry of rural tourism has a positive impact, including increasing the income of rural residents, but there is a negative impact also, i.e., increasing environmental pollution due to increasing tourism activities in rural areas. The waste generated by the tourists is polluting the soil, air, and water. One of the major pollutants generated due to increasing rural tourism is non-biodegradable materials. Normally, the tourist tends to leave waste here and there after consumption. Currently, over 400 million tonnes of plastic waste is generated annually. It is anticipated that worldwide 1,100 million tonnes of primary plastic will be produced by 2050. There is an urgent need to manage waste by reducing, reusing, and recycling plastic waste to control pollution. This article proposed some solutions to limit and restrain the consumption of single-use plastic and boost rural tourism through sustainable waste management generated in rural areas.