Incheon airport pays 50pc of biodegradable vinyl pallet cover costs

INCHEON International Airport Corp (formerly Korean Airport) is to support airport handling companies, Korea Airport Service, Swissport and AACT, by underwriting half the purchase price of biodegradable vinyl pallet covers.

The use of 7,000 biodegradable pallet covers in material such as corn flour to speed up decomposition by many times after burial. It takes 16 years for conventional vinyl to decompose compared to just eight months for the photodegradable air cargo packaging materials.

It is the fourth green project the airport has started under the Green Cargo Hub initiative which includes reducing CO2 gas emissions and the use of some 400 lightweight air cargo containers to airlines and ground handlers in the last two years, cited a report from Atlanta area Air Cargo World.