AC Marks Earthday2019 Via New Partnership With Ocean Clean-up Organization 4ocean
Apr 25, 2019, 6:17 am
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Back in the days Y and Y+ meals in the airline industry were served using reusable ceramics or plastic plate/bowl. Then the past 5-10 years, many airlines think its great using microwave dinner like plastic plate/bowl. Can we go back to something classier?
Apr 30, 2019, 7:16 am
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if you mean classier were the days when cigarette smoke filled cabins was normal, and dishes were used for discarded smelly butts, no thank you.
Rather, you raise an interesting point of whether the lifecycle from disposable versus permanent onboard equipment generates a better emissions outcome overall. Permanent generates weight/fuel costs + cleaning/re-stocking costs, while disposables have lot of embedded energy discarded after one use + much higher volume of waste.
given AC has committed here to cleaning the oceans of plastic, rather laughable that they would continue with plastic disposable onboard equipment, that contributes plastic pollution in the oceans in the first place…
Thanks for showing how hypocritical AC really is on their newly selected Greenwash
Sep 25, 2019, 8:27 am
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https://www.newswire.ca/news-release...851514826.html
MONTREAL, Sept. 25, 2019 /CNW Telbec/ - More than 345 volunteers including Air Canada employees took part in the first Air Canada-sponsored public cleanup in Canada on Sept. 22 at British Columbia's Garry Point Park. In the span of a few hours, the following was removed from the shoreline:
29 plastic cups
1374 styrofoam pieces
48 plastic bottles
173 bottle caps
481 plastic bags
32 plastic cutlery pieces
159 straws
931 cigarette butts
1 tire
1 car bumper
2 lawn chairs
"We commend the participants who came together and braved the rain to achieve these results, leaving another community ocean shoreline in better condition. Air Canada's environment commitments include reducing its use of single-use plastics and as part of a multi-pronged strategy, we have partnered with 4ocean, an organization which seeks to reduce plastic and trash pollution in oceans around the world," said Teresa Ehman, Senior Director, Environmental Affairs at Air Canada.
Air Canada has made sustainability central to its decision-making and business processes and has developed detailed strategies for its environment responsibilities. With a four-pillar approach to reducing emissions through technology, operations, infrastructure and economic instruments, the airline has also designed a wide-ranging approach to reducing its use of single-use plastics. One important aspect was to identify all single-use plastics items used onboard flights to determine whether each single-use plastic item is truly necessary and whether there's a more sustainable alternative or a possible change in process that would result in using less plastic.
So far, Air Canada has said #BonVoyagePlastic to 36.8 million single-use plastic items in 2019 by switching from plastic stir sticks onboard flights to sustainable wood ones, phasing out the plastic wrap from its amenity kits and removal of plastic from children's packs.
Air Canada's partnership with 4ocean complements its corporate waste reduction efforts by broadening its environment responsibility to also leave less and do more in the communities where the airline operates. In 2019, 4ocean cleanup events powered by Air Canada were completed in Florida where many of its US-based employees are located, and in Richmond, British Columbia, home of the airline's primary trans-Pacific hub. Drawing from their years of experience, 4ocean will also participate with the Air Canada team to develop educational resources on ocean conservation. To date, 4ocean has removed more than six million pounds of trash from the ocean and coastlines.
MONTREAL, Sept. 25, 2019 /CNW Telbec/ - More than 345 volunteers including Air Canada employees took part in the first Air Canada-sponsored public cleanup in Canada on Sept. 22 at British Columbia's Garry Point Park. In the span of a few hours, the following was removed from the shoreline:
29 plastic cups
1374 styrofoam pieces
48 plastic bottles
173 bottle caps
481 plastic bags
32 plastic cutlery pieces
159 straws
931 cigarette butts
1 tire
1 car bumper
2 lawn chairs
"We commend the participants who came together and braved the rain to achieve these results, leaving another community ocean shoreline in better condition. Air Canada's environment commitments include reducing its use of single-use plastics and as part of a multi-pronged strategy, we have partnered with 4ocean, an organization which seeks to reduce plastic and trash pollution in oceans around the world," said Teresa Ehman, Senior Director, Environmental Affairs at Air Canada.
Air Canada has made sustainability central to its decision-making and business processes and has developed detailed strategies for its environment responsibilities. With a four-pillar approach to reducing emissions through technology, operations, infrastructure and economic instruments, the airline has also designed a wide-ranging approach to reducing its use of single-use plastics. One important aspect was to identify all single-use plastics items used onboard flights to determine whether each single-use plastic item is truly necessary and whether there's a more sustainable alternative or a possible change in process that would result in using less plastic.
So far, Air Canada has said #BonVoyagePlastic to 36.8 million single-use plastic items in 2019 by switching from plastic stir sticks onboard flights to sustainable wood ones, phasing out the plastic wrap from its amenity kits and removal of plastic from children's packs.
Air Canada's partnership with 4ocean complements its corporate waste reduction efforts by broadening its environment responsibility to also leave less and do more in the communities where the airline operates. In 2019, 4ocean cleanup events powered by Air Canada were completed in Florida where many of its US-based employees are located, and in Richmond, British Columbia, home of the airline's primary trans-Pacific hub. Drawing from their years of experience, 4ocean will also participate with the Air Canada team to develop educational resources on ocean conservation. To date, 4ocean has removed more than six million pounds of trash from the ocean and coastlines.