BioNatur Plastics has recognised Worldwide Flight Products and services (WFS), a member of the SATS Community, commitment to sustainability and honoured Stephanie Peacock, Director of Sourcing & Provide in North The United States at WFS, with its first ‘Pioneer Award’ for uplifting the introduction of biodegradable plastic products into the world air cargo industry.
Since WFS grew to become the open customer for BioNatur Plastics’ biodegradable stretch wrap and pallet covers for cargo shipments in North The United States, BioNatur has performed without the the same of 315 million plastic bottles or bigger than 600 tonnes of plastic from languishing in landfills yearly.
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Now not like any varied plastics which will seemingly be marketed as ‘biodegradable’, BioNatur can moreover be recycled.
WFS’ leadership within the usage of up to the moment-to-market sustainable products has enabled BioNatur to existing the effectiveness of its resolution and create a consumer unfriendly within the industry that now moreover entails British Airways, American Airlines, Avianca, Cargolux, DB Schenker, Delta Cargo, Expeditors, LATAM Airlines, Korean Airlines, and United Cargo. Other world handling organisations are moreover now utilising BioNatur in their cargo operations.
In presenting the Pioneer Award to Stephanie, Chris Paladino, CEO of BioNatur Plastics, said: “Our first-ever Pioneer Award acknowledges that WFS, through Stephanie’s leadership, become the first cargo firm to adopt BioNatur. After being identified as a winner within the inaugural TIACA Air Cargo Sustainability Awards, the usage of our plastics by WFS, a world leader within the cargo handling space, gave us the head of the vary and high-quantity test case we desired to mercurial amplify extra exact during the industry.”
“Sustainability isn’t correct a different for us, it’s the foundation of our negate. By integrating innovative sustainable practices into our industry, we are going to not greatest stable our future but moreover create lasting price for our prospects and communities,” said Jose Canales, SVP Industrial and Industry Pattern for the Americas at WFS.
Stephanie Peacock added: “I’m proud to just salvage this award on behalf of WFS and to grab that having acted because the open accomplice for BioNatur within the air cargo industry, we’ve impressed world airlines, forwarders, and varied handlers to appear at our lead. In reinforce of SATS’ environmental, social and governance (ESG) crew priorities, we proceed to support our Procurement experts to study collaborative sustainability partners and alternatives because we can clearly discontinuance vital extra by working together.
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“The success of BioNatur is a big instance of how collaborative relationships can assist all organizations. Figuring out your vendor’s industry and dreams can enable you to leer synergies that yield long-term benefits that a long way exceed any temporary brand reductions carried out through an adversarial plan. When BioNatur first informed us about a brand sleek skills they had been checking out, we had been impressed by their innovative plan. After running quite about a pilot programs, our operations group confirmed BioNatur conducted as successfully, if not higher, than feeble plastic. This gave us the boldness to take decisive motion and deploy BioNatur exact through all our operations within the US. Absolutely a step within the supreme path to satisfy our Community level target of 100% packaging and total linear offers to be reusable or recyclable-ready by 2030.”
