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... 3 U.S. airlines, airports, and flight kitchens can benefit from advancing recycling in their organizations and throughout the commercial aviation industry.
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... 4 Recycling Best Practices -- A Guidebook for Advancing Recycling from Aircraft Cabins Compostable Material (food, soiled paper) Other Material 32% Plastic PET Bottles, Containers 6% Aluminum Cans 3% Newspaper 8% Mixed Paper 14% 38% (Note: Numbers do not add to 100 percent due to rounding.)
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... The Business Case for Recycling 5 Southwest Airlines' in-flight recycling program generated $200,000 in recycling revenue in 2010. Recycling is standard practice for Southwest flight attendants.
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... 6 Recycling Best Practices -- A Guidebook for Advancing Recycling from Aircraft Cabins City of New York (NY) City of Philadelphia (PA)
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... The Business Case for Recycling 7 A Zero-Waste Airport Terminal San Francisco International Airport (SFO) designed its new Terminal 2 with zero waste in mind, embedding 16 sustainable policies in all concessionaire contracts, including a policy that all disposable materials must be compostable or recyclable.

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