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In May last year, the Civil Aviation Administration issued a notice that from 2022, disposable non-degradable plastic straws, tableware, packaging bags, etc. are prohibited from being provided at airports and domestic passenger flights with an annual passenger throughput of more than 2 million (inclusive). How is the implementation of Wuhan Tianhe Airport and various on-site airlines? How receptive are the passengers? On January 18, a reporter from Jimu News paid a visit.
Wuhan Airport and resident airline products have been replaced
On January 18, Jimu News reporters saw in the T3 terminal of Tianhe Airport that the cup next to the water dispenser was a disposable paper cup, and the cup in the VIP hall was a ceramic cup. According to the relevant person in charge of Hubei Airport Group, before that, the water cup in the airport has also been a paper cup and a ceramic cup. However, after the implementation of the plastic ban, although the airport does not have mandatory requirements for resident merchants, it will also advocate their use of degradable tableware and degradable plastic bags. At present, most of the merchants' products have been replaced.
The bags on China Eastern flights have been replaced with biodegradable plastic bags
On January 17, before the departure of Flight CZ6285 of China Southern Airlines from Wuhan to Chongqing, purser Lu Yan took out a disposable water cup from the cabinet and showed it to reporters, "Since January 1 this year, the disposable plastic cups on the flight have been replaced with disposable paper cups, and the disposable tableware has been replaced with ceramic materials." ”
In terms of China Eastern Airlines, the reporter learned that the plastic packaging bags of blankets, newspapers and headphones have also been replaced by degradable materials. According to the relevant person in charge of China Eastern Airlines Wuhan Company, since January 1, the terminal lounge, passenger flights and other areas have stopped providing disposable non-degradable plastic straws, mixing sticks, meals/cups, packaging bags, etc.
According to the relevant person in charge of Air China Hubei Branch, since this year, the disposable tableware cups on board have been replaced with paper cups or degradable materials, and even the plastic products in the office building have been replaced.
How accepted are passengers when there is a total ban on plastic bags on flights?
In the waiting hall of Tianhe Airport, Jimu News reporters randomly interviewed a number of passengers, and they generally expressed support for this initiative of the civil aviation industry. Passenger Mr. Xu said that after the implementation of the previous strictest plastic order, shopping in supermarkets and shopping malls has become accustomed to buying degradable plastic bags, and going to tea shops to buy milk tea is also used to using paper straws, "The total ban on plastic sculpture is in the contemporary era, the benefits are in the thousands of autumns, the wind of plastic ban should also blow to the aviation industry, as passengers should be fully supported." ”
A number of airlines are exploring green initiatives
According to China Southern Airlines, the first set of "fully degradable intelligent environmental protection paper cup" production line of China Southern Airlines Jiayuan Company has been put into production, and the coating film adopts the industry's advanced polylactic acid (PLA) material (a new type of biodegradable material), which meets the requirements of civil aviation plastic limit and carbon reduction, and the annual output is expected to be about 20 million. There are also 3 sets of automated production lines in the future, which will more effectively ensure the supply of environmentally friendly paper cups during the Spring Festival.
Disposable paper cups have been activated on China Southern Airlines flights
According to statistics, China Southern Airlines handles 10 million passengers a year at Wuhan Tianhe Airport. If you use one plastic cup per passenger at a time, you can reduce the use of 10 million non-degradable plastic cups per year.
Jimu News reporter also learned that in addition to the ban on flight plastics, China Southern Airlines has many measures to promote green environmental protection. China Southern Airlines has independently developed the "aviation fuel e cloud" system, which reduces the refueling time of flights by about 17% for each flight, which can reduce the consumption of aviation fuel by more than 20,000 tons per year. China Southern Airlines Cargo has the largest number of electronic waybills in the world, saving an average of 171,000 paper waybills per month, and issuing a total of 3 million electronic invoices, which is equivalent to cutting down 1,200 trees.
China Eastern Airlines has also been effective in promoting green flights. In August 2016, China Eastern became the first airline in Asia to fully replace the paper airborne navigation data of its entire fleet with electronic flight packages (EFBs). According to the data, China Eastern's "paperless fleet" not only saved nearly 1,000 tons of aviation fuel, but also reduced various costs for China Eastern Airlines equivalent to more than 30 million yuan.
At the end of last year, Air China conducted an environmentally friendly hang tag printing test in the production environment of Terminal 3 of Capital Airport. The continuous 400 baggage tag tests were read and written normally, and there was no caton or false alarm. The raw materials of the environmental protection tag were tested in the laboratory for oxygen permeability and decomposition weight loss rate of soil and moisture environment, and the degradation rate reached more than 90% within 90 days.
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