The food and materials consumed on flights also impact our environmental footprint. We have set a company-wide target of 100% material management. This circular economy implementation objective focuses on the materials of the industrial sectors listed below that use the most resources and where the potential for circularity is high.
Although some waste streams can’t be recycled or used for biogas production due to regulations, we ensure that all in-flight waste ending at our Helsinki hub is repurposed – as energy, heat, biogas, manure or material. Nothing goes to landfill.
Our key actions for more sustainable material management
- We include the circular economy design principles in all operations.
- We focus on reducing waste and strive to turn waste streams into material streams for use in other industries.
- Plastics:
- substituting single-use plastics,
- recycling,
- paying attention also to biobased and biodegradable plastics.
- Food:
- improving order-delivery-based service,
- striving to reduce food waste onboard by offering more pre-order choices,
- donating excess meals to charity.
- Packaging:
- reducing packaging materials and single-use packaging products,
- donating excess amenity kits to charity.
- Textiles and fibres: improving textile reuse and recycling.
- Electronics and ICT: improving the sorting of electronic waste.
- Batteries and vehicles: enhancing the circular potential of batteries.
- Construction and buildings: promoting circularity principles in facility management.