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NRDC MAP Sustainable Energy Fellow, Pete Atkin, is working with the Urban Program's National Solid Waste recycling research and advocacy project. Pete is designing a survey research and analysis project to evaluate and make recommendations for major airlines' recycling programs involving high-value aluminum beverage containers and newspapers collected on each flight.

Pete will work for the NRDC for one year with the following goals:
Identify major U.S. and European airlines to be surveyed.

Construct a reliable survey. This survey will be designed to gather information on the amounts and types of wastes generated by selected major passenger airlines in the U.S. and Europe , as well as assess the waste management and recycling practices of these airlines.
 

Obtain initial data.

Follow up on data needs and verify data.
Analyze the data. The information obtained in the survey will be used to calculate the embedded energy and other resource savings realized by airline recycling, or wasted by the absence of airline recycling programs.
 
Write and produce a publicly-released report. The report will document data about airline waste generation, waste composition, and recycling. The report will also provide an analysis of the energy savings realized through current recycling practices and the currently unrealized potential savings. Finally, it will estimate the other pollution-reducing, ecological implications associated with existing airline waste management practices.
 

 

NRDC will use its outlets to release this study to the members of the airline industry and to the public at large, as well as to its 1.2 million members and e-activists.

   
 
 
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