Tina Milton, Director of Cabin Services at easyJet, said climate change is an issue fore everyone, and easyJet are doing what they can to reduce emissions and waste. It also offers a 50p discount on hot drinks for customers bringing a reusable cup. The firm says it has removed over 27 million individual items of plastic from inflight retail operation in Financial Year 2020, and has never offered plastic straws. The airline has already replaced many items with more sustainable alternatives, such as introducing a small plant-based bowl as a teabag holder. Plastic collar strays will be replaced with recyclable cardboard ones, plastic shirt clips with metal shirt clips, non-recyclable white coated card with recyclable cardboard card and polypropylene outer shirt covers with biodegradable shirt covers.ĮasyJet says this is an expansion of its existing efforts to reduce onboard plastic, including reducing the number of single-use plastic items on its flights. This development can lead to it being long-lasting for the wearer, reducing the need for more uniform items to be produced in the long term, the firm said.īeyond the new fabric, plastic has also been replaced in the packaging and other related items used to send out the uniform to crew and pilots. The new fabric, adapted to the airline's current style, was first trialled last year for suitability in the cabin and flight deck environments, said Tailored Image.Ĭompared to the non-recycled alternative, it is more abrasion-resistant, and provides more elasticity with better fit and freedom of movement for the crew. The 1.5C mark is considered to be the point where climate change becomes increasingly dangerous. It comes as record heatwaves, wildfires and floods hit countries around the world. 'I don't see any area that is safe… Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide.' 'It's just guaranteed that it's going to get worse,' said report co-author Linda Mearns, a senior climate scientist at the US National Center for Atmospheric Research. Since 1970, global surface temperatures have risen faster than in any other 50-year period over the past 2,000 years, the authors said, while the past five years have been the hottest on record since 1850. The report into climate change also said it was 'unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, oceans and land'. Scientists had expected temperatures to rise by 1.5C above pre-industrial levels between 20 but now believe it will happen between this year and 2040.
Heatwaves, flooding and droughts will also become more frequent and intense, a UN report has warned. The Earth is likely to warm by 1.5C within the next 20 years - a decade earlier than previously expected.
While easyJet offsets the carbon emitted from their flights and takes measures to reduce emissions, it has come under fire from Greenpeace and other campaigners for operating short haul domestic flights with rail alternatives. The material used to create the uniforms has a 75 per cent lower carbon footprint than the polyester currently used to make the outfits worn by airline staff. The new uniforms have been developed by Northern-Ireland based Tailored Image, and will be introduced into cabin crew circulation this month. Up to half a million bottles will be re-used each year as part of the change to the new uniform, which is made from a high-tech material created using renewable energy.ĮasyJet says it will replace all uniforms over a five-year contract, potentially preventing 2.7 million plastic bottles from going into landfill or the ocean. EasyJet is introducing new uniforms for its cabin crew and pilots that are made from recycled plastic, with 45 bottles going into each outfit, the firm said.