During the last months Alberto Garcia and Juan Fernando Martín, technicians of the Life Zero Cabin Waste project, have carried out a series of training sessions to all Gate Gourmet staff with the aim of improving the management of the waste generated in the catering.The results of these training programs have been seen quickly, with [...]
Last Thursday, July 12, the installation of the biomethanization prototype was completed in the space provided in the Ferrovial Packaging Sorting Plant in Fuenlabrada. It is a small prototype that has two anaerobic digesters of 100L capacity, reception tanks, transfer pumps, agitators and, in general, all the necessary instrumentation to guarantee an exhaustive control of [...]
Last month of June, it took place the fourth trial flights phase of separation of waste on board. This phase was developed in 10 Iberia flights: 06.06.2018 – Madrid – Barcelona – Madrid (IB0830 – IB1101) 08.06.2018 – Madrid – Stockholm – Madrid (IB3314 – IB3315) 11.06.2018 – Madrid – Prague – Madrid (IB3148 – [...]
On June 28 and 29 we received the visit of Aurelio Politano, Project Adviser of the European Commission, responsible for the follow-up of the Life Zero Cabin Waste Project. On the 28th Aurelio Politano and Marina Garcia of Iberia flew from Brussels to Madrid on a flight with separation of waste on board with [...]
On June 19 Gonzalo Blanca of ESCI-UPF had the opportunity to participate in the 9th International Congress of the ANQUE "Food and Drinks" held from June 17 to 20 in Murcia (Spain), presenting the Life Zero Cabin Waste Project.This international congress offers researchers and entrepreneurs the opportunity to discuss and exchange information on the latest [...]
The ESCI-UPF colleagues joined the 2018 Science Festival, which was held on June 9 and 10 in the Parc de la Ciutadella in Barcelona, giving the workshop "Know the impact of the footprint of our diet".In this 25-minute workshop, given by Laura Batlle and Gonzalo Blanca, ESCI-UPF scientists, this situation was posed to attendees: "Imagine [...]
Last May, Alberto Garcia and Juan Fernando Martín from Gate Gourmet began training all the company's personnel at the Madrid facilities to improve waste management. Before the training, an internal study of the waste streams produced in the different departments was carried out, in order to later be able to carry out specialized training in [...]
Last Tuesday, June 12, Sandra Fernandez, student of the Master in Sustainable Waste Management at the Polytechnic University of Madrid, presented her Master's Thesis: "Improvement in the management of waste produced in the cabin of aircraft."Sandra is developing this work, supervised by Nieves Sanz de Ecoembes, which proposes how to implement selective collection on board [...]
From today, and in the coming weeks, those passengers traveling on some Iberia flights will be able to see how waste separation is carried out on board with a new compartmented trolley prototype. These are the chosen flights: 06.06.2018 - Madrid - Barcelona – Madrid (IB0830 – IB1101) 08.06.2018 - Madrid - Stockholm – Madrid [...]
On May 25, a new follow-up meeting of the Life ZCW Project took place at Iberia headquarters in Madrid. The meeting was attended by representatives of all the partners involved in the project: Iberia, Ecoembes, ESCI-UPF, Ferrovial, BFC and Gate Gourmet, as well as personnel from Transfer Consultancy.During the meeting, the status of the different [...]
