In order to become completely waste-free by 2050, the Japanese market leader no longer uses any plastic at airports, thus reducing the amount of single-use plastic by around 94 tons per year.

The Japanese airline wants to completely stop the use of plastic and plastic packaging in the future. As part of this, the group of companies has undertaken to reduce the use of plastics by 2030 percent by the 70 financial year compared to 2019 and to completely dispense with the use of plastic packaging by 2050.

To achieve these goals, the airline will no longer provide plastic packaging for baggage packaging at airports after October 31, 2021. This initiative alone will reduce the amount of plastic sleeves used by almost 2 million packaging per year, which corresponds to around 94 tons of plastic, the company said in a press release.

As part of the waste initiative, other products on board would be replaced, for example the trays for meals in economy class on international flights with the material bagasse - this alone would result in around 617 tons less waste per year - the cutlery in the cabin through wooden parts, the straws and coffee mug lids on the plane and in the lounges through paper products. Also, all plastic sheeting used to cover cargo would be collected and recycled.