BioNatur Plastics has recognised Worldwide Flight Companies and products (WFS), a member of the SATS Crew, commitment to sustainability and honoured Stephanie Peacock, Director of Sourcing & Present in North The United States at WFS, with its first ‘Pioneer Award’ for uplifting the introduction of biodegradable plastic merchandise into the world air cargo industry.
Since WFS grew to become the open buyer for BioNatur Plastics’ biodegradable stretch wrap and pallet covers for cargo shipments in North The United States, BioNatur has kept away from the identical of 315 million plastic bottles or bigger than 600 tonnes of plastic from languishing in landfills yearly.
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Not like any assorted plastics that are marketed as ‘biodegradable’, BioNatur can even be recycled.
WFS’ leadership in the utilization of new-to-market sustainable merchandise has enabled BioNatur to illustrate the effectiveness of its resolution and bask in a consumer snide in the industry that now also includes British Airways, American Airways, Avianca, Cargolux, DB Schenker, Delta Cargo, Expeditors, LATAM Airways, Korean Airways, and United Cargo. Other world facing organisations are also now utilising BioNatur in their cargo operations.
In presenting the Pioneer Award to Stephanie, Chris Paladino, CEO of BioNatur Plastics, stated: “Our first-ever Pioneer Award recognizes that WFS, by Stephanie’s leadership, was once the main cargo company to adopt BioNatur. After being known as a winner in the inaugural TIACA Air Cargo Sustainability Awards, the utilization of our plastics by WFS, a world chief in the cargo facing condominium, gave us the excessive-quality and excessive-quantity take a look at case we wished to fleet enlarge extra across the industry.”
“Sustainability isn’t appropriate a alternative for us, it’s the foundation of our boost. By integrating innovative sustainable practices into our industry, we’re going to now not supreme stable our future nevertheless also earn lasting price for our customers and communities,” stated Jose Canales, SVP Commercial and Industry Pattern for the Americas at WFS.
Stephanie Peacock added: “I am proud to accept this award on behalf of WFS and to know that having acted as the open accomplice for BioNatur in the air cargo industry, we now have impressed world airlines, forwarders, and assorted handlers to have a examine our lead. In give a steal to of SATS’ environmental, social and governance (ESG) group priorities, we continue to help our Procurement specialists to survey collaborative sustainability companions and opportunities because we can clearly enact extra special extra by working together.
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“The success of BioNatur is a gargantuan example of how collaborative relationships can abet all organizations. Plan your vendor’s industry and targets can provide help to search out synergies that yield long-term advantages that a long way exceed any temporary impress reductions completed by an adversarial ability. When BioNatur first told us a pair of brand new skills they were testing, we were impressed by their innovative ability. After working lots of pilot capabilities, our operations crew confirmed BioNatur performed as neatly, if no longer better, than extinct plastic. This gave us the boldness to rob decisive motion and deploy BioNatur across all our operations in the US. With out a doubt a step in the suitable route to meet our Crew stage purpose of 100% packaging and total linear provides to be reusable or recyclable-ready by 2030.”
