Bristol Airport litter pickers in local community spring clean-up

On Friday 12 April volunteers from the Bristol Airport team completed a litter pick of local roads and public areas neighbouring the Airport. Staff took a couple of hours out from their normal day jobs to clear litter from around the perimeter of the 196 hectare site.

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Teams from Planning, Development, Terminal Operations, Marketing, Finance, Engineering, Maintenance, Ground Transportation, Motor Transport and others joined forces and collected over 30 bags of waste. Some of the more unusual items included old wellington boots, towels, and even tyres were found on the grass verges and in lay-bys! Further litter pick collections will be arranged throughout the year by the Bristol Airport team.

Dave Lees, Chief Executive Officer at Bristol Airport, said:

“It was a great effort by everyone who joined in with the litter pick, the team spirit was fantastic. It was my first litter pick since joining Bristol Airport and it was incredible to see the amount of waste collected in such a short space of time. Knowing that we were helping to remove litter was a very worthwhile activity and an invaluable way of spending two hours in the local community.”

Bristol Airport is committed to waste management and in 2018 the airport remained a zero-landfill airport recycling and waste management improvements on site continue. This recently included installing an extra water refill station in the departure lounge, bringing the total of three water refill stations in the terminal. This is supported by all catering outlets in the terminal providing ‘fill up for free’ water top-ups for passengers using their own bottles.

Bristol Airport continues to reduce carbon emissions across the airport site in order to achieve its objective to be carbon neutral by 2030 by measuring its energy use across the site and seeking to limit emissions. A range of actions are taking place to reduce the carbon intensity of the airport infrastructure by measuring its success by reducing per passenger carbon emissions.

Further information on Bristol Airport’s sustainability principles can be found on the website.

 

Great to see the UK is blighted by litter, I don't know when we became so untidy and careless as it wasn't always this way.

 

It might be a PR stunt more than anything but it would be nice to see more businesses getting involved with clean-up days such as this. It may well have been people visiting the airport for recreation who were partly responsible for the litter in the area around the perimeter so it's only fair in this case that the airport take action to tidy the area up. On a more serious note, FOD (Foreign Object Debris) is a huge safety concern for airports as they can be ingested into aircraft engines causing serious damage.

 

Winters lane which is at the western end of the runway 09 end. It is a main spot for runway viewing the whole length and also the apron. Its a popular spot and weekends gets very busy also with a ice cream van on a sunday in the summer months.When the airport had some work done that required tarmac they had some left over so they laid it over where cars parked and was a good job,as it made parking easier and it tidied up the edges of the road. There was always litter every where from visitors throw it out rather than take home. There was a few litter bins at one time and they got filled and disappeared. I think im right in saying Bristol spotting group cleaned it up once. With litter every where there it will only spoil it for spotting as the airport might say we will stop the spotters parking there,its a certain few that spoils it for others.I was up there about a month ago and there was litter about but not enough to worry about.