How are airlines being environmentally friendly?

They are always looking for innovative ways to reduce the environmental impact of their services, and steps that they have taken so far have included going strawless, composting grounds from coffee served in flight, and using avionics to use the 'Greener Skies' approaches in order to cut fuel consumption.



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We're making the current fleet lighter and more efficient and using new air traffic control techniques to save emissions. For example, landing using a continuous descent into an airport saves at least 150kg of CO2 per flight. Adding wingtip devices to an aircraft can reduce fuel use by 4%.

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Emissions from burning jet fuel make up a large portion of commercial airlines' environmental impact. Airlines are looking to reduce this with alternative fuels.

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Airlines are promoting various alternative fuels, including biofuels, as key to the future of carbon-neutral growth in ICAO.

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Ryanair became the first EU airline to start publishing monthly greenhouse gas data last year. With the youngest fleet and highest load factors, Ryanair is Europe's greenest/cleanest major airline, said chief marketing officer Kenny Jacobs.

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The first ever ranking of total airline emissions has the German carrier Lufthansa at the top with 19.11 million tonnes of CO2, closely followed by British Airways with 18.38 million.

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China, the world's biggest emitter of carbon dioxide, produces 12.7 billion metric tons of emissions annually. That dwarfs U.S. emissions, currently about 5.9 billion tons annually.

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Airplanes are disassembled at aircraft-recycling centers where non-metal components with no recycle value are discarded, major components are dismantled and metal alloy components are sorted based on their composition. The metal alloys are then remelted together to form a single homogenous alloy from scraps.

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