How can I plan a zero-waste vacation without compromising on comfort?

You can't.

At a minimum, you exhale waste carbon dioxide.

For example, the chicken you ate generated waste in the form of bones, feathers, and guts. There was some form of transport that brought that chicken from the farm to the kitchen. The chicken may have been fed grain that was grown on a farm and had to be harvested by some means, usually a machine made of steel. And the platter the chicken was served upon was carved from a piece of wood and the sawdust and wood slices were left on the ground to rot or burned. The ceramic plate was made from mud that was fired in a wood- or gas-burning kiln. The beer you drank with supper was made from grains that would have provided much more nutrition had it not been run through the guts of yeast that was wastefully thrown away after decanting the beer. Don't even think of the mining and refining that went into the manufacture of your fork, knife, and spoon. And where did the light come from as you ate your late supper? Was it electricity generated from glass-and-silicon solar panels, or maybe hydroelectric power from some dammed river, or perhaps wax candles made from paraffin from oil wells. And after supper, did you slip into your cotton pajamas whose cotton was grown with petrochemical fertilizers and harvested by huge machines and spun into threads and woven into cloth in sweatshop factories? And when you used the toilet before you went to bed, where did that stuff go? Was the window glass made from recycled re-melted bottles? Were the plants that produced the fibers in your blanket used in their entirety, or were the less fibrous parts discarded? Or perhaps you have no clue that the fibers are a petrochemical synthetic. And how will you return home after your vacation? Car? Train? Airplane? Walking in shoes soled with petrochemical plastic or some thick animal’s skin? The key to your fromt door is refined metal. Heating your home requires something burning somewhere, in your furnace, or in a power station, or in creating the glass and silicon solar panels, or manufacturing windmills. Even passive solar heating uses glass.

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The best we can do it to try to miminize waste. Eliminating waste entirely is a fantasy. Even when we die we leave behind waste.

You can't even plan a stay-at-home stay-cation that is waste-free.

You could not exist in a waste-free manner. Even wild animals leave behind waste. Our ancient ancestors left behind midden piles of their refuse…unsanitary landfills.

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Q. How can I plan a zero-waste vacation without compromising on comfort?

But there is hidden waste anywhere you go.