Last week’s article explored three convenient ways to easily and sustainably pursue new local adventures. Keeping with our theme of the path to zero waste we want to give you 6 sustainable travel tips that will keep your mind, and journey, clean, pure, and impact-free.

Unsurprisingly, bringing an impact-conscious mentality on your long-haul journeys is not too different, in practice, from what you might do back home — though the distance does come with its fair share of unique challenges.

Here are our 6 tips to help you overcome those difficulties and discover a whole new world of sustainable…

It’s time to get cozy with holiday season so close around the corner, it’s the perfect time to start thinking about the ways we can all cut back on needless holiday waste. A key part of our ethos here at Cycle Water is that each of us can make small, mindful changes that move us forward on the path to a zero waste world — and the holidays don’t have to be an exception!

While the spirit of the season is indeed jolly, there’s nothing jolly about the wasteful aftermath. …

Environmentalism, once limited primarily to the domain of advocacy and social-justice, is now hip once more. Many people are starting to realize that as consumers their lifestyles and decisions have real-world consequences, and, as a result, the pursuit of sustainable ways of living (and shopping) are breaking through into the mainstream.

But how did we get here? How did the idea of living with fewer possessions and less waste — something that was hardly on the radar for most people, even just fifteen years ago — suddenly become so trendy? How did the mantra of reduce, reuse, and recycle…

Today, plastic is ubiquitous and surrounds us everywhere we go: grocery stores, restaurants, cafes, malls, our homes and workplaces, our landfills, and, perhaps worst of all, our oceans. By now, many Canadians are aware that there is a problem with ocean plastic, but the dirty truth is that the problem of ocean plastic (which never truly biodegrades) is actually much bigger than most Canadians realize.

Here are some numbers and facts (correction: some very concerning numbers and facts) to get you up to speed:

• Of the 8,300 million tonnes of plastic made since 1950, over 6,400 million tonnes (that’s over…

Greenwashing is the manipulative marketing practice of using “green” imagery and deceptive claims to conceal ecologically harmful practices. It’s probably best known for its use by big corporate polluters in a variety of industries.

Though, more often than not, greenwashing is employed more subtly in places much closer to home. You might have even already been exposed to the concept from the supposedly “eco-friendly” promises on the labeling of laundry detergent or meat products. In reality, neither of these items are as eco-friendly as they claim.

But would it surprise you to learn that single use plastic water bottles also…

There’s nothing quite like a small dose of adventure to add some spice to life. But with social media feeds these days full of beautiful pictures of people travelling to faraway lands, you might get the impression that adventure has to mean big deal and big budget. We don’t think it has to be that way.

Cycle Water is more than just a canned water brand, for us, it’s about living a balanced lifestyle, and that includes a little adventure. Most of all it’s about building a sustainable mindset that helps each of us to pursue our individual journeys’ with…

We’re all on our own paths, making our own way through the cycle of life. However, we believe that, no matter where you are in life, part of everyone’s journey will inevitably be the pursuit of balance.

But what is balance exactly? How does it fit into your life? Why does it matter? Let’s dive in a little deeper…

A Balanced Lifestyle Means Many Things

A balanced lifestyle… it sure sounds nice, but what is it and how do you actually do it? Honestly, that’s a difficult question to answer because everyone’s balance will be different. You are on your…

Life is a journey; one where we need water to survive, but as we live in the modern world on-the-go, our consumption of single-use plastic bottles have led us to a dangerous precipice.

The convenience of single-use plastic bottles are among the most frequently thrown away objects, to the tune of hundreds of billions of bottles a year. [1] Plastic bottles litter nearly every corner of the Earth and, worst of all, they don’t biodegrade, instead lasting generations, only to break down into ever-smaller microplastics that continue to cause harm.

Some might say, “we could just ban them completely, starting…