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ABTA issues guidance on ditching plastic
ABTA has launched a guide to help travel companies take a long-term approach to reducing plastic usage.
The guidance ‘Managing plastics: guidance for travel companies’ is designed to ensure travel firms avoid any ‘unintended consequences’ when taking a new approach to waste management.
It provides a five-step process that travel companies can adopt, based on the approach outlined by ABTA’s sustainability programme ‘Better Places’.
It also highlights examples of what travel businesses have done to tackle the use of plastics.
"While businesses are clearly putting plans in place, we also know that travel companies want to develop a long-term strategy in tackling the use of plastics, and are keen to make sure they aren’t introducing an approach which could have unintended consequences," said Nikki White, ABTA Director of Destinations & Sustainability.
The guidance also looks at how travel companies can respond to existing and future legislation.
A European Single-use Plastic Directive, which plans to ban single use items, will bring stricter rules on bottle recycling by 2025 and will put reduction targets in place for drinks cups and food containers.
ABTA is holding a ‘Delivering Sustainable Travel’ seminar on June 18 with practical and up to date guidance, as well as advice on addressing the key supply chain risks.
Bev
Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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