Watch your waste: The problem with airline food and packaging | cnn.com

Every day, Emirates' airline catering facility prepares 180,000 meals to service its more than 400 daily flights around the globe. The Emirates facility is one of the world's biggest airline food factories, but there are similar operations across the world. The scale of inflight catering is astonishing -- as is its waste problem. Half-eaten meals, tossed beers, empty plastic water bottles, napkins, discarded packaging -- look around a cabin at...

Solving the aviation industry's food waste problem

Kate Springer, CNN * Published 18th July 2017 Every day, Emirates' airline catering facility (CNN) - prepares 180,000 meals to service its more than 400 daily flights around the globe. The Emirates facility is one of the world's biggest airline food factories, but there are similar operations across the world.