Travelling is becoming increasingly more linked with various apps that offer everything from booking to best suggestions for your next trip. They can also make your travels more sustainable. If you’re wondering how to reduce your carbon footprint during travelling and bring joy to the local community to boot, then start exploring these apps.
The Good On You app deals with the second largest industrial polluter – fashion. Fast fashion is particularly problematic because it’s not only harmful for the environment and wasteful, but also unfair to hundreds of workers. It’s hard to shop ethically when travelling, but this app will help you this. It stores information about more than 2,000 brands and then ethically rates these brands by the user’s request and according to numerous criteria. It uses verified data from trustworthy organisations (Greenpeace, Fair Trade).
Using public transport is an important part of travelling. The Moovit app brings you new bus, train, underground and other public transport timetables in more than 3,000 cities around the world. It finds the nearest station and calculates the journey time. Due to its excellent audio support, the app is also suitable for speech- and hearing-impaired.
Exploring cities and countryside is truly something special on a bike. It’s a perfect opportunity for a thorough exploration. Spinlister functions as a rent-a-bike app. It has the locations of bike owners in 22 countries. All you need to do is select the pick-up location, the time you want to rent the bike and the time you’re going to return it, and you can rent the bike for several weeks.
Green Globe is one of the highest certifications of sustainability. It assesses the sustainability performance of every business based on 40 criteria that are globally accepted as the classification of travel and tourism. The app will help you search for accommodation, sights, organised trips and other experiences all over the world that meet the certification criteria.
Food is an important part of travelling, but it’s important to eat local food at local restaurants whenever possible. The NOSH app will help you find local, ethical and sustainable food in restaurants all over the world. You can collect points, which you can later give as a donation to charity food projects.
Shopping is unavoidable when travelling. You need to shop everything from food to basic necessities that you might’ve forgot at home. Problems often arise during your stay abroad because you often don’t understand the labels and therefore don’t know what ingredients an item contains. In cases like this, the Good Guide app is here to help. All you need to do is scan the product (or food) barcode with your phone and the app will give you all the information about the ingredients, along with a rating for the product’s effect on health and environment.
Travelling results in huge quantities of paper from all the bookings made, from flights to hostels. This is where TripIt comes in. It stores all your travel information in one place, so you don’t have to waste paper. You can simply send an email and the app will create a collection of your bookings for you. TripIt also co-operates with PackPoint, an app that helps you pack your clothes, so you don’t take too many with you.
No matter where you go, water is a precious commodity. We all need it, but in some countries there’s not enough drinking water, so the use of plastic bottles is widespread. The RefillMyBottle app will show you the nearest city where you can fill your bottle with water, which is cheaper and good for the environment. If you’re looking for tips on how to reduce plastics, My Little Plastic Footprint is a great app.
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