ZERO CABIN WASTE PROJECT
There are two compartments in the airplane: packaging and solid waste. What happen with the packaging?
Last Thursday, 26th September, Ecoembes released the third question about the ZCW Project into its Instagram profile. The question was asked to clarify if packaging, once separated on board, ends up recycled or not.Most of [...]
LIFE Zero Cabin Waste Consortium Meeting
A new follow-up meeting of the LIFE Zero Cabin Waste Project took place on Friday, September 20. The meeting was at Ecoembes' offices in Madrid and representatives of the different partners of the consortium attended: [...]
New characterizations of monitoring the quality of packaging waste
This week, new characterizations will be carried out of the packaging waste collected on flights with separation on board and those generated by the catering activity itself. They are introduced into a 20m3 capacity compactor [...]
What happens to the waste at the end of a flight?
To show TCPs the entire process of waste once they have been segregated at source during the flight, Iberia has made an explanatory video where the Gate Gourmet and Ferrovial facilities have been visited.Nieves de [...]
Do you know where the flight waste goes?
Last Friday, 30th August, Ecoembes published in its Twitter and Instagram profile a question about the ZCW Project with the aim of understanding how much their followers know about the project.The question was referred to [...]
ZCW in the “VII AECOC Meeting Point against food waste”
On September 26, the “VII AECOC Meeting Point against food waste” will be held at the Pablo VI Foundation Auditorium in Madrid under the motto “Together we feed solutions”. AECOC is the Association of [...]
New press release
On August 2, Ecoembes launched a press release “Recycling is also easy on vacation”, which highlights different places that we usually visit during our holidays and where we can sort our waste so that it [...]
Publication of LIFE ZCW second paper
On July 15, the paper Airplane cabin waste characterization: knowing the waste for sustainable management and future recommendations was published in the Waste Management magazine. The person responsible of writing the paper was Gonzalo [...]
Awareness action in Gate Gourmet
The implementation of the ZCW model in Gate Gourmet facilities means a change of habits for workers when it comes to managing waste. Therefore, as any change in habits, it requires constancy, so motivation and [...]
Presentation of LIFE ZCW in CILCA 2019
The VII International Life Cycle Assessment Conference in Latin America (CILCA 2019) will be held between July 15 and 20 in Cartago, Costa Rica. This conference tries to promote the life cycle approach and [...]
Publication in the Ronda magazine
Last June, an article on the LIFE Zero Cabin Waste project was published in Ronda magazine of Iberia, on page 76. This magazine is available in all Iberia flights, in the front seat pocket. [...]
Meeting with Air France for the replication of LIFE ZCW
On July 2 Gategourmet held a meeting with Air France and Servair (a catering company belonging to Gategroup) to explain what the waste management model proposed in LIFE ZCW consists of and how this model [...]