{"id":295027,"date":"2019-10-04T12:30:25","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T07:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=295027"},"modified":"2019-10-04T12:30:25","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T07:00:25","slug":"vistara-flights-cut-down-reliance-on-single-use-plastic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/vistara-flights-cut-down-reliance-on-single-use-plastic\/","title":{"rendered":"Vistara flights cut down reliance on single-use plastic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: TATA-SIA joint venture airline Vistara on Wednesday announced the reduction of sidle-use plastic by about 75% on all its domestic flights.<br \/>\n&#8220;The effort includes 100% elimination of 200ml plastic water bottles on all flights within India effective October 2 &#8211; an initiative that the airline announced in July 2019 starting with flights between Delhi and Mumbai,&#8221; said a statement issued by Vistara adding that the bottles alone accounted for more than 50% of single-use plastic onboard Vistara\u2019s flights.<br \/>\nThe airline now packs plastic cutlery and creamers with paper pouch instead of plastic. It has replaced plastic meal casserole and lids with aluminium in economy class, single-use plastic bowl covers in premium economy and business class has been replaced with reusable covers, wooden stirrers have replaced plastic ones and single-use plastic bowls and cups from meal trays have given way to reusable ones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: TATA-SIA joint venture airline Vistara on Wednesday announced the reduction of sidle-use plastic by about 75% on all its domestic flights. &#8220;The effort includes 100% elimination of 200ml plastic water bottles on all flights within India effective October 2 &#8211; an initiative that the airline announced in July 2019 starting with flights between Delhi and Mumbai,&#8221; said a statement issued by Vistara adding that the bottles alone accounted for more than 50% of single-use plastic onboard Vistara\u2019s flights. The airline now packs plastic cutlery and creamers with paper pouch instead of plastic. It has replaced plastic meal casserole and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}