PUNE: The Pune Airport has completed one year of being single-use plastic-free, according to a press statement issued by the Airport Authority of India (AAI). Pune is among 35 airports in India to have achieved this milestone. The AAI had banned single-use plastic at airports across India in September 2018.
Steps taken by AAI include banning items like straws, plastic cutlery plastic plates etc. and switching over to other packaging alternatives and replacements. In the first phase, 35 AAI airports i.e. Agartala, Ahmedabad, Amritsar, Bagdogra, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Calicut, Chandigarh, Chennai, Coimbatore, Dehradun, Goa, Guwahati, Imphal, Indore, Jaipur, Jammu, Kolkata, Lucknow, Madurai, Mangalore, Patna, Port Blair, Pune, Raipur, Ranchi, Srinagar, Tiruchirappalli, Tirupati, Trivandrum, Udaipur, Vadodara, Varanasi, Vijayawada & Visakhapatnam have been declared ‘Single-Use Plastic Free Airport Terminals’ in January 2019.
AAI also mentioned that they are also promoting the use of biodegradable garbage bags in garbage bins.