The LIFE ZCW poster presented by Gonzalo Blanca to the Recuwaste Congress has won the Alfonso Maíllo Award for the best scientific poster. It has been chosen among more than twenty posters through the vote of those attending the congress.Months before the celebration of the Recuwaste Congress a Call for papers was opened, through its [...]
Among the objectives of the Zero Cabin Waste Project is the publication of papers in international journals to disseminate the progress made in the management of air catering waste over the 40-month duration of the project. In this sense, last September, the paper Tackling international airline catering waste management: LIFE Zero Cabin Waste Project. [...]
On September 28 we participated in El Matí de recerca a escoles i instituts (The Morning of Research in Schools and Institutes), holding two workshops at the IES La Bastida in Santa Coloma de Gramenet, Barcelona.This initiative is organized to bring scientists closer to educational centers and is part of the celebration of the European [...]
Due to the imminent implementation of the separation of waste on board at Iberia's national and European flights, several trainings are being carried out for the workers involved in waste management in the Gate Gourmet catering.While in previous training, the LIFE ZCW Project was presented and the aim was to improve the internal management of [...]
On October 3rd, during the 13th meeting of IATA’s Cabin Waste Working Group, Iberia had the opportunity to present the progress achieved with the LIFE Zero Cabin Waste project. Moreover, this meeting took place during the ATAG Global Sustainable Aviation Summit 2018, the most important sustainability summit in the aviation sector, making it a good [...]
On September 14 and 21, Iván Barredo, a process engineer belonging to Biogas Fuel Cell SA, gave training to several workers at the Ferrovial Packaging Sorting Plant in Fuenlabrada about the operation and maintenance of the prototype assembled for biomethanization of organic waste.Thanks to these trainings, and once the prototype is completed with a crushing [...]
Thanks to the feedback received from the crew in the different on-board waste separation tests, a new poster has been prepared including all the waste that generated doubts.For example, in the Packaging section, more plastic containers have been included, such as single-use bags and small containers such as those used for milk. While in the [...]
On October 9, Gonzalo Blanca of ESCI-UPF will present the article "LIFE Zero Cabin Waste Project: Management of aviation waste. Environmental impacts from the perspective of the LCA "within the framework of the Recuwaste 2018 conference at the Tecnocampus in Mataró in Barcelona.Recuwaste 2018 is held over two days, on October 8 and 9, under [...]
Throughout the week of November 17 to 25, 2018 the European Week of Waste Prevention is celebrated in more than 43 regions of Europe, one of them being Catalonia, promoted from the Waste Agency of Catalonia. From Zero Cabin Waste we join this celebration organizing the Conference "Integral Strategies for the Reduction of Food [...]
An essential part of LIFE Zero Cabin Waste is the dissemination of progress in improving the management of cabin waste, for this, we organize and participate in different activities at national and international level (conferences, conferences, workshops,...) aimed at different publics and sectors. As a promotional material for these events, pens have been produced [...]
