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Think twice about cups
As net-zero targets move up the sustainability agenda Alison Wells, from Plane Talking Products, asks how can the humble plastic cup inspire onboard buyers to think twice about purchasing decisions, for the good of the planet? Onboard sustainability is fast moving up the travel agenda and the PLANET Action Group set up as part of Onboard Hospitality's Get Onboard Now! campaign identified the need for serious industry-wide action and radical thinking. Key innovators and thought leaders joined the kick-off sessions and a shocking statistic came to light: on average eight plastic cups are used for each passenger on each long haul Economy flight. This got me thinking. If airlines and suppliers want to become more sustainable, we must all recognise that it is not only about working in greener ways and supplying more sustainable products, but about looking at the entire end-to-end supply chain. We have to make as many positive changes as we can to reduce impacts on the environment all along the supply chain, and perhaps by focusing on the lifecycle of those plastic Suppliers have to get on the pathway to cups and considering small changes, the net zero too and demonstrate sustainable results can add up to a big difference for the operations in support of airline and environment. passenger efforts. Cost The checklist on will inevitably be a factor the facing page in these choices but this shows just what an is now just something environmentally fraught Looking at the total process the purchase lifecycle cost of a product we have to do. Looking of just one product can can help airlines direct at the total lifecycle cost of a product can be, but also just how their spending, to ensure help airlines (and their we could make better the biggest eco impacts suppliers/partners) choices to cut impacts decide where and how on the planet fast. to direct their spending to ensure they have The aviation sector has made public the biggest eco impacts. commitments to becoming net zero by 2050.
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