As we announced in previous publications, the LIFE Zero Cabin Waste project was present last May at the SETAC Europe 29th Annual meeting, held between May 26 and 30 in Helsinki (Findland).Gonzalo Blanca Alcubilla, researcher at ESCI-UPF, presented the study “Is the single-use plastic ban by EU universally good? The case of airplane catering.” in [...]
From the end of May and over the month of June, a total of 500 new trolleys with two-compartment bins for waste separation will be received at the Gate Gourmet facilities. New trolleys for the separation of waste on board. Compartmentalized buckets, as explained in previous news, allow to separate on board packaging waste [...]
Gonzalo Blanca, researcher at ESCI-UPF, participated in the Sustainable Cabin Forum 2019, at Panel discussion 3. Plastic free flights - from vision to implementation, in which he presented some of the results obtained in the Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) within the framework of LIFE ZCW. Gonzalo has answered some questions regarding his impressions of participating [...]
After participating in the Sustanaible Cabin Forum in Lisbon on May 16, Joaquin Mateo, Director of Compliance at Gate Gourmet Madrid, who presented the LIFE Zero Cabin Waste Project as an example of an initiative that aims to maximize the waste reduction and recycling and avoid landfilling, has answered some questions: Is there any [...]
On May 27, a first meeting was held through a video call with four representatives of the DIGESTAIR Project, which is developed within the framework of the Horizon 2020 call of the European Commission.The DIGESTAIR Project proposes to treat the waste generated in the cabin of the aircraft through a digester that is incorporated into [...]
Following the implementation, on April 1, of good practices in long-haul flights to carry out the selective collection of waste on board, a series of monitoring characterizations have been carried out to evaluate the quality of the separation.Two flights arriving to Madrid airport on May 20 were selected, one of them from New York and [...]
Coinciding with the International Day of Recycling, which is celebrated on May 17, Iberia has launched a press release and an advert in different radios to disseminate the implementation of the LIFE Zero Cabin Waste Project on their flights.The press release highlights the implementation of on-board waste separation on all long-haul Iberia flights and the [...]
Next Thursday, May 16th, will take place the conference The Sustainable Cabin Forum 2019. The challenge of Single-use Plastic and Catering Waste in Lisbon (Portugal) and part of the Zero Cabin Waste team will have the opportunity to attend and participate in two of the Panel Disussions. This conference, organized by Hi Fly and [...]
One of the objectives of the LIFE Zero Cabin Waste project is to try an alternative treatment to the current one for Category 1 organic waste, that is, catering waste that comes from international flights.Currently this waste is taken to landfill, as stablish by the SANDACH regulations for waste classified as category 1. However, in [...]
As presented in previous news, Iberia held a meeting with Air Nostrum (an airline of Iberia Group) to present them the Zero Cabin Waste project. During this meeting, Iberia presented the good practices developed by the ZCW to perform a selective collection of waste during the flight and the new waste bins designed for this [...]
