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Southwest Airlines’ new inflight cup and stir stick are designed to reduce single-use plastics by more than 1.5 million pounds annually. [Photo: Southwest Airlines]
Stirring Up Sustainability: Southwest Launches Bamboo Inflight Cups and Wood Stir Sticks
by David Seeley | Oct 28, 2024
Dallas-based Southwest Airlines just found more ways to keep single-use plastics out of its planes, with cold drink cups made from a 75% bamboo pulp blend and new birch drink stirrers. The moves could reduce the airline's inflight single-use plastics "by more than 1.5 million pounds annually," Southwest said.
