Dubai: The world’s busiest international airport, Dubai International, DXB, is getting ready to enforce a self-imposed deadline for a ban on all single-use plastics.
Dubai’s two airports - DXB and DWC - will soon be free of single-use plastics in a bid to manage environmental impact, according to an announcement made in June 2019.
Dubai Airports has been working closely with more than 250 of its concession and hospitality partners to enforce the ban by the beginning of the new year.
With 90 million passengers passing through Dubai’s two airports – DXB and DWC – every year, consuming tens of thousands of plastic items from straws to water bottles to coffee lids daily, the plastic-free initiative has presented some serious challenges for those involved.
The phased approach will see plastic cutlery, drinking straws, take-away food packaging and polythene bags removed from cafés, restaurants and shops at the airport from January 1, 2020.
During the next twelve months, additional products will be replaced both in customer spaces and behind the scenes.