Addressing Challenges to Airport Terminal Recycling

To address the impacts of waste management and associated greenhouse gas emissions, U.S. airports and their partners strive to reduce waste generation and increase landfill diversion of materials generated in their passenger terminals. Airport recycling programs are challenged by issues of contamination of recycling streams by non-recyclable items, so the success of these endeavors requires efforts to foster behaviors that result in increased capture and decreased contamination. A key element to this success is addressing barriers to recycling participation by passengers, custodial service providers, concessionaires, and others. Traditional efforts have focused on education, yet the success of these approaches has been limited. A large body of research suggests other methods (e.g., community-based social marketing) may offer more effective results. The objectives of this research are to assess the current state of airport terminal waste recycling programs and to identify and test recommended strategies to increase recycling of airport terminal waste based on local conditions.  

• Record URL:
  http://apps.trb.org/cmsfeed/TRBNetProjectDisplay.asp?ProjectID=5790
• Supplemental Notes:
  • Contract to a Performing Organization has not yet been awarded.

Language

• English

Project

• Funding: $450000
• Contract Numbers:

  Project 02-105

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Airport Cooperative Research Program

  Transportation Research Board
  500 Fifth Street, NW
  Washington, DC    20001

  Federal Aviation Administration

  800 Independence Avenue, SW
  Washington, DC  United States  20591
• Project Managers:

  Picciano, Tara

• Start Date: 20240813
• Expected Completion Date: 0
• Actual Completion Date: 0

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Airport terminals; Airports; Outreach; Recycling; Waste management
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Environment; Operations and Traffic Management; Terminals and Facilities;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01926500
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Transportation Research Board
• Contract Numbers: Project 02-105
• Files: TRB, RIP
• Created Date: Aug 5 2024 8:23PM