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Salty Jackal Backpackers and Surf Camp

Salty Jackal Backpackers & Surf Camp is located in Swakopmund, a relaxed town on the wave-rich coastline of Namibia, nestled between the Atlantic Ocean and the Namib Desert dunes. 

Here the owners Oliver & Iris have created an accommodation which is not only a lively and comfortable place for surfers and travelers to stay but that also tries to minimise its ecological footprint in the context of the Namib Desert. 

Commitments:

In the framework of the Global Tourism Plastics Initiative, Salty Jackal Backpackers and Surf Camp commits to:

  • Eliminating containers for cleaning products from their kitchens by 2025. 

  • Eliminating containers for cleaning products from their bathrooms by 2025.

  • Eliminating plastic packaging from their food and drink services by 2025.

  • Offering guests filtered drinking water at the hostel and reusable bottles to borrow during their stay, reducing the use of plastic (from supermarket) by 100 bottles per month. 

  • Introducing reusable solutions to replace containers for cleaning products in their kitchens by 2025. 

  • Introducing reusable solutions to replace containers for cleaning products in their bathrooms by 2025. 

  • Introducing reusable solutions to replace plastic packaging in their food and drink services by 2025. 

  • Engaging the value chain to provide data on recyclability and compostability of plastic packaging to facilitate the move towards 100% of plastic packaging to be reusable, recyclable, or compostable by 2025, by establishing procurement criteria on reusability, recyclability, and compostability. 

  • Taking action to increase the amount of recycled content across all plastic packaging and items used by 2025 by establishing target of % of recycled content in packaging and items by 2025. 

  • Collaborating with others and investing in the collection and segregation of recyclable and organic materials in their facilities to help increase recycling and composting rates in practice, by providing proper training and means for staff to sort solid waste (especially plastic waste), according to local regulations, sustainability standards, and/or technical guidance from waste management service provider, engaging waste service providers to receive information on recycling rates, and factors contributing/affecting them, by engaging other business and key stakeholders to discuss and take action to improve the performance of waste service providers (e.g. recycling rates) and by investing resources ($, time, personnel) to promote innovation that results in increased recycling rates, either through actions at own operation or elsewhere in the process.