Dubai’s two airports have announced that it will be free from all single-use plastic by 2020.
Starting from January 1st there will be a ban on all single-use plastics from all of the retailers and food and beverage outlets at Dubai International and Dubai World Central airports.
Dubai International see around 90 million passengers pass through every year and that’s a lot of plastic that is potentially being used and wasted, so as a new initiative airport has worked closely with all its retails to remove plastic from all points of sale.
The initiative, which was first decided on in June 2019, will include straws, water bottles, coffee lids plastic packaging, cutlery and more from over ninety-five per cent of its retailers. McDonald’s will even be replacing a total of 5,608,740 items with recyclable materials and Costa Coffee has vowed to replace all of its plastic-lined cups with a 100 per cent renewable “smart cup”.
The full initiative process won’t be fully rolled out until the end of next year, but expect to see noticeable changes in the airports if you’re flying from early January onwards.
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