The tour operator has removed complimentary single-use water bottles from its private transfers and tours. Instead, clients will be given a reusable Water-to-Go filter bottle.
Latin Routes said, like many, it had been “quite naive” about the scale of sea pollution caused by single-use plastics, until it was highlighted in David Attenborough’s Blue Planet 2 series.
The government estimates around 5.5 billion single-use plastic water bottles are landfilled, littered or incinerated every year in the UK alone.
Since then, says the tour operator, it has been exploring ways to reduce its reliance on single-use plastics.
