Green Baggage are experts in baggage handling operations, sustainability and technology. We are professionals who care, striving to make a difference.
Our aim is to reduce the impact that approximately 1.5 billion travellers and their baggage have on the environment every year through improved efficiencies in baggage handling, better processes and enhanced manufacturing.
Our Vision
Our aim is to create a worldwide network of industry professionals and passengers who share our mission and actively contribute to making the world we travel a better place.
The facts behind baggage
We’re on a mission to make travelling with baggage better for our planet. We all dream of leaving footprints in the sand on picturesque beaches, but that doesn’t have to apply to our carbon footprint. Travelling with baggage has a surprising impact on the environment and we’re here to help change that.
The travel industry has a lot of baggage. Baggage is an often overlooked part of the travel industry’s environmental impact and we aim to change that.
- 28,000,000kg of paper used for luggage tags in 2019
- 24.8 million bags were mishandled in 2018
- 30% additional air miles required due to mishandled baggage
- 300,000 trees are destroyed annually for paper production
- 500,000,000kg of baggage couldn’t be directly reconciled with passengers
- 8,000,000kg of CO2 released into the atmosphere due to air travel
