Dubai: the world's busiest airport to start phasing out single-use plastic in January
09 December, 2019
The world’s busiest airport is going plastic free. Dubai International Airport will eliminate all single-use plastics from January 2020. Dubai World Central Airport will also eliminate single-use plastics.
Between them, the airports will eliminate 5,500 tonnes of single-use plastic every year.
The news comes after Dubai Airports, the company that manages both Dubai International Airport and Dubai World Central, made a pledge in June to ban single-use plastic items.
Items such as cutlery, straws and shopping bags will be ditched from consumer spaces from the start of next year.
More than 90 million passengers travel via Dubai’s two airports every year, using tens of thousands of plastic items every day. The plastic ban will be completed by the end of next year.
Outlets at the airports are signing up to go plastic free, with McDonald’s set to replace 5,608,740 items with recyclable materials. Costa is introducing a new fully sustainable coffee cup at its airport outlets and 95 per cent of the airport's commercial partners have already pledged to ditch single use plastics.
Outlets at the airports are signing up to go plastic free, with McDonald’s set to replace 5,608,740 items with recyclable materials. Costa is introducing a new fully sustainable coffee cup at its airport outlets and 95 per cent of the airport's commercial partners have already pledged to ditch single use plastics.
Source: www.thenational.ae