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Aviation struggles with waste mountains: from meals to headphones

Worldwide, air traffic has risen substantially and the number of passenger sum up to around 5 billion a year. Not only does this lead to a considerable emissions, but also to an enormous mountain of waste created by meals, pillows and headphones. 

Nils Pauliks spoke on behalf of the Circular Circuits project: ” We are trying to reduce electronic waste. Plastic, iron and copper in particular disappear into incinerators with the discarded headphones.”

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