Recycling Best Practices—A Guidebook for Advancing Recycling from Aircraft Cabins (2013)

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77 A p p e n d i x e This section highlights innovative waste reduction and recycling best practices in addition to those presented in the main body of the guidebook. The examples listed are intended to illustrate applications or achievements related to specific practices, not to endorse specific companies or products. • Collaborate with vendors to – Design products and packaging with zero waste in mind. – Minimize disposable packaging and products (such as using returnable plastic pallets with large rubber bands instead of wooden pallets with plastic pallet wrap). For more resources and examples, see StopWaste.org’s Use Reusables program website: www.usereusables.com. – Take responsibility for end-of-life management of products. Such efforts may involve tak- ing back materials after their useful life and either repairing items for reuse or recycling them into new products. – Create products made from your organization’s recycled materials, such as recycling waste paper into in-flight magazines. • Use online material exchanges to sell or donate surplus equipment and materials. Examples include Craigslist (www.craigslist.org), Freecycle (www.freecycle.org), eBay (www.ebay.com), and industrial materials exchanges (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency directory of state- specific exchanges: www.epa.gov/osw/conserve/tools/exchstat.htm). • Facilitate passenger or employee contests to develop innovative ideas to reduce waste. Starbucks’ Betacup Challenge is an example of a customer contest: www.thebetacup.com. • Create a contest to reward passengers, flight attendants, and other participants who generate the least amount of waste on individual flights (airlines) or gates (airports). • Prevent surplus food through best practices related to procurement, inventory manage- ment, and food preparation. Use related technological solutions, such as Lean Path, a com- pany that provides comprehensive waste tracking technology packages to help foodservice operators reduce food waste, save food dollars, and operate more sustainable facilities: www. leanpath.com. • Provide perks, such as an extra snack or bonus miles, for passengers who bring their own reusable mug or cup for use on the plane. • Create web portals for sharing information on waste reduction and recycling with passen- gers, employees, airports, airlines, flight kitchens, contractors, and others across the aviation industry. • Offer zero-waste food and beverage meal options. • Encourage the use of mobile apps instead of printed boarding passes. Passengers could be reminded at the point of ticket purchase online, in reminder check-in emails/texts, and by check-in counter staff or at self-check-in kiosks. Additional Best Practices

78 Recycling Best practices—A Guidebook for Advancing Recycling from Aircraft Cabins • Use electronic instead of print communication wherever possible, such as marketing, internal communications, billing, instructional manuals, and administration. • Create reuse stations for lightly used supplies and materials. • Remove the company or individual employees from unwanted (junk) mail lists. • Compost at flight kitchens, headquarters, or other locations, where feasible. Compost can be collected by a service provider for processing at a composting facility, or generators may consider “in-vessel” systems for on-site composting.

Abbreviations and acronyms used without definitions in TRB publications: A4A Airlines for America AAAE American Association of Airport Executives AASHO American Association of State Highway Officials AASHTO American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials ACI–NA Airports Council International–North America ACRP Airport Cooperative Research Program ADA Americans with Disabilities Act APTA American Public Transportation Association ASCE American Society of Civil Engineers ASME American Society of Mechanical Engineers ASTM American Society for Testing and Materials ATA American Trucking Associations CTAA Community Transportation Association of America CTBSSP Commercial Truck and Bus Safety Synthesis Program DHS Department of Homeland Security DOE Department of Energy EPA Environmental Protection Agency FAA Federal Aviation Administration FHWA Federal Highway Administration FMCSA Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration FRA Federal Railroad Administration FTA Federal Transit Administration HMCRP Hazardous Materials Cooperative Research Program IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ISTEA Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 ITE Institute of Transportation Engineers MAP-21 Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (2012) NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASAO National Association of State Aviation Officials NCFRP National Cooperative Freight Research Program NCHRP National Cooperative Highway Research Program NHTSA National Highway Traffic Safety Administration NTSB National Transportation Safety Board PHMSA Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration RITA Research and Innovative Technology Administration SAE Society of Automotive Engineers SAFETEA-LU Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (2005) TCRP Transit Cooperative Research Program TEA-21 Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (1998) TRB Transportation Research Board TSA Transportation Security Administration U.S.DOT United States Department of Transportation