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You know at the end of each flight nowadays when the flight attendants go down the aisle collecting all the trash? Ever wonder if any of that stuff gets recycled? Well, Green America's Responsible Shopper has!

Airline passengers create 881 million pounds of waste per year (half of it in-flight), and much of it is not recycled. In What Goes Up Must Come Down, The Sorry State of Recycling in the Airline Industry, Green America ranks 11 major airlines on their recycling efforts and offers actions the industry can take to improve recycling overall. We also offer actions that airline passengers can take to improve recycling.

From their press release:

Which airlines are taking steps to reduce the vast amount of waste generated each year by the industry? Delta, Virgin America, Virgin Atlantic and Southwest are doing the best job, according to the new report “What Goes Up Must Go Down: The Sorry State of Recycling in the Airline Industry” from Green America's consumer watchdog Web site ResponsibleShopper.org. The report also shows that United and US Airways are doing the worst job when it comes to recycling.

Finally, Green America has a two-step process to push back:

First, join us in sending a message to the airline executives that you value recycling, and don’t want your mile-high trash going into a landfill when you come down. Send a message to airline executives today

Second, help us with our research. If there’s one most-important thing we learned while researching our report, it’s that what the airlines say they’re doing and what passengers experience on their flight are not always the same thing. That’s why we’re collecting the experiences of airline passengers over the next year. The next time you fly, please ask the flight attendant what waste will be recycled. If the flight attendant confidently tells you that one or more items will be recycled, thank the airline for its efforts! If not, or if the flight attendant doesn’t know, politely explain that you’ll be recycling your own items at your destination. Either way, we want to know about your experience, so please complete our quick survey.

So, keep track of your experiences and then do the Push Back through Green America!

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