Sustainability on Singapore Airlines

• March 27, 2019
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Singapore Airlines is contributing more to greener skies by further reducing food wastage on board, cutting back on the use of plastics for in-flight items and increasing the use of sustainable ingredients in in-flight meals.

SIA currently employs customer surveys, data analytics and staff feedback, and works with its caterers to reduce food wastage after flights.

The Airline plans to automate data collection and further leverage on technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning to better predict customers’ consumption patterns and further reduce cabin food waste.

Through an improved monitoring system of customers’ consumption patterns and data analytics, SIA will be able to better adjust the quantities of certain food items uplifted to minimise wastage without compromising on the customer experience.

SIA is also committed to reducing the use of single-use plastics with alternative sustainable materials for more in-flight items. The Airline aims to become entirely plastic straw-free by September 2019. Since September 2018, SIA has removed all plastic straws on board, apart from children’s straws. The latter will be substituted with environmentally friendly paper straws. These changes will reduce about 820,000 plastic straws each year. The Airline also has plans to replace its current plastic swizzle sticks with wood-based ones by September 2019.

From May 2019, SIA will also be replacing polybags from children’s toys with recyclable paper packaging.
Several of the Airline’s paper products, such as menu cards, tissue paper and toilet rolls, are made with FSC-certified paper, which have been sourced in an environmentally and socially responsible manner.

Other upcoming green initiatives include the printing of children’s colouring books and activity kits using eco-friendly soy-based ink.
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