On January 9 and 10 we had the visit of Pieter Willot, Manager Sustainable packaging & materials of the company deSter, part of Gategroup. DeSter is a producer of the food packaging and tableware used for the menus prepared by Gategourmet, they produce both reusable and disposable containers. In this sense deSter offers sustainable packaging [...]
In February 2017 this website dedicated to the Life + Zero Cabin Waste Project was launched. In addition to facilitating the materials that are generated around the project (leaflets, posters, video, press, results, etc.), we also try to inform about the day-to-day development of the project through the news section.Throughout this first year, from February [...]
We began the new year by welcoming Alberto García, joining the Life + Zero Cabin Waste Project team within Gate gourmet. Alberto is a Senior Environmental Health Technician and brings more than 10 years of experience in the classification and differentiation of waste, is committed to the environment and aware of the responsible management [...]
On December 21 we had the opportunity to explain the main lines of the Zero Cabin Waste Project to Paloma López-Izquierdo, General Deputy Director of Waste and Esther Valverde, General Deputy Director of Food Chain Structure, belonging to the General Directorate of Quality and Evaluation Environmental and Natural Environment, within the MAPAMA (Ministry of Agriculture [...]
Catering waste produced on international flights is considered Cat 1. waste. Current legislation at national level determines that this waste must go to landfill. One of the objectives of the ZCW project is to test an alternative treatment for this type of waste and demonstrate that the material obtained is safe for health and the [...]
The presentation video of the Project, 1 min 45 s long, has been published on the main page of this website. Through this animated video, the aim is to explain, in a simple and entertaining way, the sustainable management model for catering waste generated by airplanes, proposed through Zero Cabin Waste project.The video is born [...]
We welcome Juan Fernando Martín Romacho to the Life + ZCW Project, who joined the Gate Gourmet team on November 27.Juan F. Martín graduated in Environmental Sciences in the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and obtained a master's degree in Environmental Engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de València.Juanfer is passionate about the environment and has joined [...]
For this second test of waste separation on-board in 8 European Union flights, "Waste Trolleys" were used with a bucket divided into three compartments of different sizes, with the space being distributed as follows: 50% recyclable, 25% paper, 25% non-recyclable. These compartments were labeled following the color signs commonly used at national level: recyclable - [...]
On December 1, an Off-Load Analysis of the food waste from the menus served on board began at Gate Gourmet facilities. This analysis consists of making counts of the food not consumed from the menus at the time of arrival of the flight. To do this, the content of the trays is checked and all [...]
On November 24, Gonzalo Blanca and Laura Batlle, researchers from the UNESCO Chair of ESCI-UPF, gave the workshop "The trace of our diet. Do you know its impact? " On the one hand, Gonzalo Blanca, explained his work within the project Life + Zero Cabin Waste, studying the mechanisms that would allow to manage [...]
