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17 Recycling is more efficient and effective when service items -- including beverage cups, containers, and food packaging -- are designed and purchased with recycling in mind. Airlines, airports, and flight kitchens with successful recycling programs are integrating environmental and sustainability criteria into the procurement process to support recycling of service items and to meet growing customer demand for green services.
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18 Recycling Best Practices -- A Guidebook for Advancing Recycling from Aircraft Cabins Key Steps to Green Purchasing This section explains four steps to making purchasing choices that facilitate recycling and reduce waste for airlines, airports, and flight kitchens: 1. Consider recyclable, compostable, or waste-reducing service item options.
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Best Practice #2. Make Purchasing Choices that Facilitate Recycling and Reduce Waste 19 Step 2: Test Environmentally Preferable Products and Develop Specifications for Procurement Airlines and flight kitchens can engage in test runs to ensure that products meet performance standards before adopting new products.
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20 Recycling Best Practices -- A Guidebook for Advancing Recycling from Aircraft Cabins An example is for environmental managers to offer purchasing managers training and tools for assessing the total costs of specific products, from procurement through disposal. Total cost accounting is a way to consider the cost of a product throughout its use and disposal -- adding recycling and disposal costs to the factors already considered, such as purchase price, transportation, labor, storage, weight and jet-fuel implications, and suitability for altitude changes.
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