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... 4 CHAPTER 1 – INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND International air travel continues to grow, and along with it, the quantities of foreign waste from in-flight service. Airlines and airports have efforts in place to manage and reduce waste from these activities; however, the extraction and eventual recycling of recyclables from international in-flight service are often overlooked.
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... 5 1.1 Regulated Garbage Regulated garbage is the term used to describe waste that arrives and remains in the U.S. from other countries.
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... 6 1.2 Quarantined Waste (QW) and NCRM The term Quarantined Waste is defined as: all waste material derived in whole or in part from fruits, vegetables, meats, or other plant or animal (including poultry)
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... 7 The International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships is also a significant influencer of environmental protocols. Established in 1973, and later amended in 1978, it is an international agreement on how ships can minimize pollution both from accidents and routine operations (IMO 2018a)
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... 8 personal interest in recycling may also be associated with the emotion or reaction to a feeling or obligation to compensate for a person's perceived causing of environmental damage (Baumeister 1998)
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... 9 Airports NCRM programs are limited as they would need to earmark increased areas for its handling. Airports and their stakeholders have concerns about penalties that come with quarantine violations and therefore avoid handling them.
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... 10 APHIS uses data to provide epidemiological assessments of issues affecting animal health. These assessments form the basis 1.5.5 PRA Pest Risk Assessments are divided into three broad steps and, as per ISPM 11, they include the following assessments: categorization of the pest; probability of pest introduction and spread; and potential for economic and environmental impacts.

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