Waste management

Waste produced as part of airport activities due to office management, aircraft cleaning, infrastructure maintenance, retail and catering are mostly similar to those produced in a city and are divided into:

• municipal solid waste and the like, generated by cleaning activities in terminals and auxiliary buildings, and aircraft cleaning activities. This waste is collected in special equipment (skips and bins) appropriately distributed around airport grounds and disposed of by companies appointed by local authorities. Municipal solid waste and the like consists of a dry portion and several separated portions;
• hazardous special waste (e.g. used oil, oil emulsions, oil and diesel filters, sanitary waste, etc.) and non-hazardous (e.g. ferrous scrap, expired pharmaceuticals, alkaline batteries, etc.) resulting from SEA’s maintenance activities;
• food waste consisting of leftovers of meals consumed by passengers on aircraft, which are managed and disposed of directly by catering companies and which are not dealt with by the airport operator.

Linate - Waste produced by type (tons)

Source SEA

Malpensa - Waste produced by type (tons)

Source SEA

The total production of waste at Linate for 2015 was 2,640 tons, an increase of 4.4%, while Malpensa’s overall production amounted to 5,609 tons, a decrease of 1.6% compared to 2014.

Total waste production (tons)

Fonte SEA

The separate collection of waste as defined in art. 183 Paragraph 1 subparagraph P of Italian Legislative Decree 152/2006 (“separate collection: collection where a waste stream is kept separate according to type and nature of waste to facilitate its specific processing”) for Linate was 51%, and 32.1% for Malpensa, also considering the separate collection of special waste. As a result, separate collection of waste at Linate shows a slight increase, while Malpensa is slightly reduced.

% Separate collection

^(*) The data does not include SEA Energia.