Airline Recycling Report Card

Last month, Green America gave marks to popular airlines. And it wasn’t so pretty. Green America’s report , “What Goes Up Must Go Down: The Sorry State of Recycling in the Airline Industry,” was published by their consumer watchdog website, Responsible Shopper . Sadly, not one airline recycles all the common recyclables — glass, aluminum cans, plastic and paper. The next time you’re asked to fill out a survey about your experience with an airline, be sure to mention how important you think recycling and waste reduction is. According to the report, Delta, Virgin America, Virgin Atlantic and Southwest are doing better than the rest when it comes to recycling passenger trash. And that’s good considering passengers create around 881 million pounds of waste per year when flying. That’s a big problem in itself, so many individually wrapped items. Airlines doing the worst job of recycling passenger trash include United and US Airways. From best to worst, here are all of Green America’s airline recycling ratings: Delta Airlines Virgin America Virgin Atlantic Southwest Airlines Continental Airlines Jet Blue American Airlines British Airways Air Tran United Airlines US Airways (Image via stock.xchng ) Post from: Tree Hugging Family

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Airline Recycling Report Card