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Eco-friendly Blankets

Emirates

iven the massive scale of its operations, Dubai-based Emirates has taken a big step by opting to provide sustainable blankets to its flyers. The blankets offered on longhaul flights, in Economy Class, are made with recycled bottles. The airline partnered with in-flight product consultants, Buzz, to conceptualise these certified ecoTHREAD blankets, each of which is made with 28 recycled bottles. According to the airline’s statisticians, in 2019 alone these blankets kept 88 million plastic bottles out of landfills, the

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