Rita Jónyer
Rita (Circular economy, Avinor Oslo Airport) has a background in project management and marketing. She is currently working on implementing concrete measures to increase circularity and achieve Oslo airports' zero-waste goals, such as reducing food waste, increasing source separation, and phasing out single-use serving in the entire airport.
In her free time, Rita is collaborating with other environmental activists following the “think globally – act locally” principle, organizing clothes swaps, beach cleanups, and similar public events.
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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
