Aircraft waste: separating recycling and international catering waste
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Guidance for the aviation sector on how to separate recyclable waste from international catering waste (ICW).
Adapted edition
- Document type
- Reference Guide
- Format
- DOCX
- Pages
- 5
- Language
- English
- Version
- 1.0
- Updated
- 2026-09-17
- Category
- Safety & operations
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0
Description
Guidance for the aviation sector on how to separate recyclable waste from international catering waste (ICW). Consult the original guidance for current legal and operational details.
Contents
- About this guidance
- What is ICW
- Examples of ICW
- Which flights need to treat food waste as ICW
- Responsibility for waste compliance
- Notifying APHA of new ICW handling sites
- Reviewing your compliance
- Inspections by APHA
- Collecting and separating waste onboard
- Examples of recyclable items
- Contaminated recycling
- Collection bags
- Responsibility for onboard collection
- Handling waste during aircraft turn around
- If recycling contains ICW
- If ICW and recycling are transported together
Source and licence
Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
AttributionDepartment for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, ‘Aircraft waste: separating recycling and international catering waste’ (updated 18 September 2025), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
ChangesNeutral text-only adaptation from the official GOV.UK Content API body: headings, paragraphs, ordered and unordered list items and clickable source-link destinations in an appendix preserved. Images, logos, page design, accessible-format request widgets and linked attachments excluded; normalised whitespace, invisible format marks and typography.
Version history
- v1.017/09/2026