A conversation about single-use plastic bottles led me to question my environmental footprint as an interpreter and look for solutions. There are plenty and they involve minimal effort!

Sitting in a booth one day I noticed that my colleague had brought her own reusable water bottle into the booth, rather than continually opening (and later throwing away) the small single-use plastic bottles provided for us. We got to talking about the water bottle and I heard myself reeling out excuse after excuse for why I did not use a reusable bottle that was being given away by the institution we were working in. Too big, too much hassle, not practical, no one told me; too far away to go and collect; too… until it dawned on me that I didn’t have a leg to stand on.

So back to my hotel I went, tail between my legs, and decided not only to buy a reuseable bottle but I also started looking at the rest of my work-related environmental footprint. I found quite a few things I could change – and that all interpreters could change!

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