Monarch Airlines will extend its onboard recycling services. It was begun on all flights operating into London Gatwick last October.
The airline is going further with its recycling services, announcing it will offer recycling on all flights arriving into Birmingham. Monarch’s programme recycles plastics, aluminium, glass, and paper by storing them on board until taking them for recycling after landing. Items are then put into recycling bags by cabin crew, and the airport employees at the two airports take them away.
Monarch’s managing director, Tim Jeans, called on more airlines to follow their lead.
“Over the past three months our onboard recycling initiative on flights into Gatwick has been fantastically received by both Monarch cabin crew and customers, with many customers assisting the process by separating their own recyclable waste before collection by the crew,” he stated
He added that seventy per cent of the waste generated in the cabin has potential for recycling. He commented that the fact the more airlines are not following similar strategies was “staggering.”.
He went on to say,”We urge our other UK and European airports to introduce the necessary recycling infrastructure to enable us to roll out the scheme to include all Monarch services.”
Monarch has a system of ongoing environmental planning, Monarch and the Planet. The airline uses the programme to introduce measures to reduce its carbon footprint, and offers carbon offsetting to passengers using its services.
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