Qantas flies the first zero-waste flight amid growing concerns about single-use plastics.
Your coffee's mini creamer capsules and mini Vegemite pods may soon be a blast from the past -- if you fly Qantas.
“In the process of carrying over 50 million people every year, Qantas and [Qantas' low-cost airline] Jetstar currently produce an amount of waste equivalent to 80 fully-laden Boeing 747 jumbo jets,” Qantas Domestic CEO Andrew David said just before the flight."This flight is about testing our products, refining the waste process and getting feedback from our customers.”
On Wednesday's flight, about 1,000 single-use plastic items were substituted with sustainable alternatives, such as sugar cane containers or crop starch cutlery. And some were removed altogether, including"individually-packaged servings of milk and Vegemite," Qantas said in a statement. Many cities across the U.S. have banned plastic bags, straws and single-use plastics in general. California is currently weighing a statewide ban. Last October, the European Parliament voted in a landslide to ban single-use plastics in by 2021.
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