BioNatur Plastics has recognised Worldwide Flight Products and services (WFS), a member of the SATS Community, dedication to sustainability and honoured Stephanie Peacock, Director of Sourcing & Present in North The US at WFS, with its first ‘Pioneer Award’ for challenging the introduction of biodegradable plastic products into the global air cargo industry.
Since WFS became the launch customer for BioNatur Plastics’ biodegradable stretch wrap and pallet covers for cargo shipments in North The US, BioNatur has done without the same of 315 million plastic bottles or extra than 600 tonnes of plastic from languishing in landfills yearly.
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Unlike any utterly different plastics which would be marketed as ‘biodegradable’, BioNatur can moreover be recycled.
WFS’ leadership within the utilization of most stylish-to-market sustainable products has enabled BioNatur to screen the effectiveness of its solution and develop a shopper substandard within the industry that now moreover involves British Airways, American Airways, Avianca, Cargolux, DB Schenker, Delta Cargo, Expeditors, LATAM Airways, Korean Airways, and United Cargo. Completely different worldwide handling organisations are moreover 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 acknowledges that WFS, thru Stephanie’s leadership, became doubtlessly the most important cargo company to adopt BioNatur. After being known as a winner within the inaugural TIACA Air Cargo Sustainability Awards, the utilization of our plastics by WFS, a global leader within the cargo handling home, gave us the excessive-quality and excessive-volume test case we wished to immediate amplify extra across the industry.”
“Sustainability isn’t correct a option for us, it’s the foundation of our progress. By integrating progressive sustainable practices into our industrial, we is no longer going to most efficient stable our future but moreover draw lasting impress for our possibilities and communities,” stated Jose Canales, SVP Business and Business Trend for the Americas at WFS.
Stephanie Peacock added: “I’m proud to settle for this award on behalf of WFS and to know that having acted as the launch partner for BioNatur within the air cargo industry, we possess impressed global airways, forwarders, and utterly different handlers to have a look at our lead. In pork up of SATS’ environmental, social and governance (ESG) community priorities, we proceed to serve our Procurement consultants to mark collaborative sustainability partners and opportunities due to we are in a position to clearly accomplish great extra by working collectively.
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“The success of BioNatur is a enormous example of how collaborative relationships can revenue all organizations. Thought your supplier’s industrial and dreams can serve you gaze synergies that yield lengthy-interval of time advantages that some distance exceed any short impress reductions completed thru an adversarial methodology. When BioNatur first told us a pair of fresh skills they possess been trying out, we possess been impressed by their progressive methodology. After running lots of pilot features, our operations workforce confirmed BioNatur performed as successfully, if no longer greater, than mature plastic. This gave us the conceitedness to care for shut decisive circulation and deploy BioNatur across all our operations within the US. No doubt a step within the good direction to meet our Community level target of 100% packaging and overall linear materials to be reusable or recyclable-ready by 2030.”
