Camping for me usually means trotting into the wilderness with everything I need in my backpack, but recently I returned from my first car camping trip in several years. The novelty of giant tents with extra rooms and grilling steaks on the hot plate wasn’t lost on me, but at the end of the weekend, I was astonished to see all the overflowing trash cans strewn around the campground.
The problem wasn’t that people were being careless; there just seems to be an enormous amount of waste generated by car camping. Of course there are beer cans and wine bottles but there are also paper plates, empty fuel canisters and plastic bags, not to mention the odd broken camping chair.
