Also from today's Fast Company is a frustrating article about how little the airlines recycle. Now, I am a well-known hater of all things airline related from their bogus security measures, poor customer service and inefficiencies to their pay-for-everything approach, high ticket prices and tax-payer supported industry. In short, I don't have much to say about the airlines that is positive.
So really, this is no big surprise. The airlines hardly recycle. Millions of people jet around drilling cocktails, bottles of water and coffee everyday and most of that waste is just trucked off to landfills. In fact, enough aluminum is wasted each year to build 58 747 jets.
This is hardly the most egregious offense of one of our (ahem...auto industry) most wasteful and harmful industries, but still worth noting.
From the article: Some airlines have progressed further on the issue than others. British Airlines, for example, has set a goal of sending zero waste to landfills by the end of 2010. But American Airlines has decided that it isn't practical to recycle plastic and newspaper even though several other airlines do so.
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