• Avoid littering
• Try to avoid using plastic bottles. Instead, buy boiled water at Dzomsa (it is also cheaper) It would be better if you ask your Guesthouse/Hotel, for filter water.
• When eating in restaurants, prefer dishes made from local products.
• Give your exhausted batteries to Dzomsa or better take them home, where there is a proper system for recycling. Ladakh does not have such facilities.

• Put your rubbish in the garbage bins and give the organic waste to your guesthouse or some other people who have animals to feed.
• Water scarcity is a big problem in Leh. Try to avoid flush toilets and prefer Ladakhi style compost toilets. Try to shower or wash with the required amount of water.
• Water heating systems through solar plates are mostly available at Guesthouses/Hotels. In that case, there is no need for additional heating.
• Give your laundry to Dzomsa as they use eco-friendly detergent and wash it in a stream which leads.
• Buy local products for snacks like dried apricots, apples and Yos (roasted barley). Buy biscuits from local Ladakhi bakeries instead of using imported products. Local products are mostly packed in papers and not in plastics.

• Ask your trekking agency if they use the green bag to get tins and bottles back to Leh.
• Ask your staff to use the green bag and burn other rubbish.
• If you trek without an agency, do the same.
• Take your own bottles and Micropure or any other filter to filter the water from the rivers. To boil water on stove consumes a lot of kerosene.

• While eating in a tented restaurant please make sure to avoid taking foods in packets.
• Take a small bag for your used toilet papers. Later, you can burn them.
• Ask your trekking agency to avoid the use of silver foil. As they use it for wrapping packed lunch, instead use napkins which can be burned after use.
• Use eco-friendly soap.


• Please use the ladakhi-style toilets on the camping rather than doing open defecation.

Please cooperate and help in preserving the fragile eco-system of Ladakh. Share your ideas so that we can apply in future. Thank you for your support.