While taking out my recycling today I thought about the amout of things I was recycling and therefore keeping out of landfills to be re-used again. I realized that between my girlfriend and I we recycle about four grocery bags a month, and throw one trash can of garbage out. Then I began to wonder about how much this really equals in the big picture? Just a drop in the ocean, but a drop none the less. It made me wonder how my airline does, and what type of citizen they are in their community. I don't think my airline really recycles anything at all. I think about all of the paper from our releases, cans from passengers drinks and water bottles that we go through in a single flight and realized that all of that is ending up in a landfill somewhere.
Many people probably just write this off as tree-hugging BS, but in fact one day if we continue at our current rate the landfills will be overfilling into your backyards. It seems as easy and simply separating recycling from trash and having a little more responsibility for the community and enviroment that we must all live in.
So, I must ask, do any of your airlines recycle?