Southwest Airlines has begun rolling out new inflight cold beverage cups made from a pulp blend of 75% bamboo and 25% paper along with 100% FSC-certified birch wood stir sticks, replacing traditional single-use plastic items as part of its sustainability efforts. The airline expects these changes to cut more than 1.5 million pounds of single-use plastics annually, helping it exceed its 2025 goal to reduce such plastics by 50% from a 2022 baseline and move toward eliminating them from inflight service by 2030. The cups still contain a polyethylene lining and aren’t recyclable currently, and full rollout of the wooden stir sticks is slower due to supply issues, but Southwest considers this a meaningful step in reducing onboard plastic waste while exploring further innovations and operational improvements.
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