Dear MEL Topic Readers,
Watch your waste: The problem with airline food and packaging
Do you always finish everything served on your flight? With just a few exceptions, such as fancy wine in the first class, coffee or tea in any cabin, almost everything served on a flight is individually packaged. This means anything unfinished becomes garbage. As there are thousands of flights in the sky today and that number is increasing almost every day, how much food waste is being, and will be produced in the air daily?
Because of customer satisfaction, competition, low cabin air-pressure and food safety regulations, meals served on the flight are quite different from the ones you find on the ground. And plenty of food is stocked to make sure all the passengers are fed, even though there are always quite a few passengers who decline to eat. Though new technologies are going to help reduce such waste by more accurately predicting what and how much should be served on each flight, there still is quite a lot of food waste discarded from each flight.
What about preorder meals or in-flight convenience store?
Enjoy reading and thinking why such dish meals, mostly salty and greasy, not just sandwiches, are served on the flight in the first place.
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