New Plastics Report Warns Travel Industry and Calls for Unity to Address
Photo Credit: Multi-use toiletries at the Moxy Hotel in New York City. Unsplash / Andrea Davis
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As the travel industry slowly emerges from the pandemic, it will soon have to re-engage with dropping single-use plastics because regulators aren't waiting until the travel sector's profitability recovers to tighten laws.
A major industry report has endorsed significant changes in how the travel sector works with single-use plastics, sending a strong signal that airlines, hotels, cruise lines, and other companies need to worry more about the environmental impact of items like shampoo bottles, food utensils, and drinking straws and stay ahead of a coming regulatory crackdown by governments worldwide.
The World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) and the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) published a report this week that recommended an overhaul of the industry's use of single-use plastics with specific recommendations.
The report comes against a backdrop of industry ferment. The European
