During March 8th to 9th, the Zero Cabin Waste team, together with Airbus and Iacobucci, developed a workshop where the new waste-trolley design that Airbus and Iacobucc have developed together was presented. This trolley allows to sort cabin waste in origin presenting also a solution to collect waste more efficiently and ease the management [...]
On March 8, the students of the Master in Sustainable Waste Management at the Polytechnic University of Madrid had the opportunity to visit the Ferrovial facilities in Fuenlabrada where the Gate Gourmet waste arrives, coming from the catering of Iberia’s flights. In the master class taught on Wednesday March 7, Eduardo Saez, specialist technician [...]
The work of restructuring the area of compactors of GG has been completed, allowing a much more efficient separation of waste generated in flights and catering. The completion of the work has suffered a slight delay compared to the initial forecast due to the rains that have been present in Madrid during these last months.Taking [...]
Next week, the third on-board waste separation test begins with a new prototype of two-compartment trolley. Each flight will carry two trolleys of this type, one for the economy class and another for business. These are the 10 selected Iberia flights: 13.03.2018 - Madrid - Barcelona - Madrid 19.03.2018 - Madrid - [...]
On February 28, Alberto Caldeiro, Manager of the Ecoembes Recycling and Collection Department, presented the Life+ Zero Cabin Waste Project in the Master in Sustainable Waste Management at the Polytechnic University of Madrid, which has 18 students in this edition. Alberto explained how to implement the selective collection of packaging and paper-cardboard waste in [...]
On February 23rd, a new follow-up meeting of the Life + ZCW Project took place at the Gate Gourmet facilities in La Muñoza, Madrid. The meeting was attended, in person or by video call, by representatives of the different partners involved in the project: Iberia, Ecoembes, ESCI-UPF, Ferrovial, BFC and Gate Gourmet. Transfer staff also [...]
On February 7th, the first training of trainers framed within the B1 action of the Life + Zero Cabin Waste project was carried out in Gate Gourmet facilities. It was attended by those responsible for the departments with the most involvement in the project: Cleaning of the facilities. Loading dock and washing train, where the [...]
Since January, a series of works are being carried out in the area of compactors of Gate Gourmet facilities with the purpose of improving the segregation capacity of the waste generated.Before the beginning of the work, there were 5 compactors: two for Category 1 waste from non-Community flights and one for Category 3 from the [...]
On Wednesday, February 7, Gonzalo Blanca and Alba Bala from ESCI-UPF presented to the rest of the partners, through videoconference, the preliminary results of the LCA of the current waste management system. In the first place, it was explained how the inventory was carried out and the different calculations to obtain the initial waste [...]
On February 1st, we had the opportunity to explain the Life + Zero Cabin Waste Project to four representatives of AECOSAN (Spanish Agency of Consumption, Food Safety and Nutrition) belonging to the Ministry of Health, Social Services and Equality. Following the indications received by the technicians of the General Subdirectorate of Animal Health and [...]
