Waste - recycling
British Airways aims to recycle half of the waste we dispose of and to send none to landfill by 2010.
This goal is a testament to the priority we are placing on waste management and the reason why we are introducing new systems to measure and track performance in this area.
Recycling to date
- 85% of waste generated in the construction of the new Terminal 5 site at Heathrow.
- 28% of solid waste at Heathrow and Gatwick.
- Onboard magazines and newspapers off arriving shorthaul flights at Heathrow.
- All printer and photocopier paper in our UK offices is made of recycled paper and is in turn recycled.
Innovations
Our drive to manage waste responsibly covers less obvious ways of recycling too:
- worldwide furniture management contract with Amaryllis who promote waste minimisation including the reuse and recycling of office furniture
- donating onboard blankets to an elephant orphanage in Kenya
- a mobile phone recycling scheme that sees phones sold to developing markets at affordable prices (with proceeds donated to the nature conservation charity, Fauna and Flora International)
- building environmental considerations into the buying, running and disposal of our IT equipment and processes