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RECYCLING


At the end of 2017, Isavia set itself objectives for 2018 in connection with Responsible Tourism and the City of Reykjavík and Festa Climate Action Pledge. One of these targets was to increase the ratio of sorted waste by at least 5% per passenger. Great progress has been made in increasing waste sorting over the past year, particularly at Keflavík Airport, where sorting of organic waste from operators began at the end of the year. Isavia met its target for increasing the ratio of sorted waste. In 2017, the ratio of sorted waste per passenger was 20%. By 2018, this had risen to 27%.

Percentage of recycled waste per passenger

Year201620172018
Recycled per passenger0,027 kg14 %0,040 kg20 %0,045 kg27 %
Unsorted per passenger0,160 kg86 %0,160 kg80 %0,123 kg73 %
Total per passenger0,187 kg100 %0,200 kg100 %0,168 kg100 %

Recycling ratio

tonn
For landfill/disposal 1303
For recycling 475
Percentage of recycled waste per passenger
% %
7%

GREEN STEPS

Isavia is a participant in the Green Steps project organised by the Environment Agency of Iceland. The aims of the project include making the company’s operations more environmentally friendly, increasing staff well-being, improving working conditions, reducing operating costs and adopting approved environmental priorities.

Iceland Radio in Gufunes last year became the first Isavia workplace to complete adoption of the fifth and final Green Step and receive ISO14001 certification from the British Standards Institution (BSI) for operating an active environmental management system. One of the ways in which Iceland Radio has gone the extra mile to reduce waste is keeping hens to eat generated organic waste which is not used for composting.

Iceland Radio has gone the extra mile to reduce waste by keeping hens to eat generated organic waste which is not used for composting.

Keflavík Airport’s warehouse at Grænás receives furnishings and useable building materials from the renovations in Leifur Eiríksson Air Terminal and other airport buildings. Furnishings are reused if spare parts are needed or sent to other locations around the country. Part of the Green Steps initiative currently being adopted by Isavia is awareness of the possibilities of re-using of furnishings and other material within the company.