Sara Solis
Sara Solis is circular economy lead at Royal Schiphol Group. She defines and executes strategies to achieve circularity across the organization. With expertise in strategy, sustainability and data analysis, she manages key projects, sets targets and monitors progress. Solis holds an MSc in industrial engineering and an MBA in corporate social responsibility. Passionate about chocolate, she enjoys reading and nature.
Day -
2 - Environment and sustainability - 15:15 - 15:45
This is it! Circular airports are becoming a reality
Airports are socio-economic ecosystems that live at the point where passengers change modes of transportation to reach their chosen destinations. Faced with societal challenges such as climate change and resource scarcity, airports themselves have embarked on a journey toward a sustainable identity that embraces their primary function of moving people. As part of this adaptation, airport operators have many reasons to consider the benefits of integrating circularity into their daily operations. Listen to some of the EU's leading airports that have gone beyond the pioneering stage to provide blueprints for understanding resource flows and how airports can benefit from circularity.
The audience will learn:
- How to move from waste to resource thinking by understanding the nature/value of resource streams in daily airport operations
- How to implement the systemic reuse and recycling of infrastructure and construction materials in airports
- How to implement consumer-friendly and economically viable options to eliminate consumables in airport operations
- How the circularity projects implemented at leading EU airports can be adopted by fellow airports
- How/where to access relevant information to increase circularity aspects in airports' individual sustainability roadmaps
