Product and packaging labels
Food containers, cups, bags, wrappers, paperboard, and other airport-sold items can receive standardized color, icon, text, and QR identifiers.
SmartSort for Airports
Separate airport materials at the source so carbon resources can move to the right route.
SmartSort connects products, packaging, bins, signs, tenant workflows, concession activity, custodial handling, used cooking oil and grease pathways, waste partners, and MRV so carbon-bearing materials can move toward the right downstream route inside airports and other controlled facilities.
Waste to Wings passenger education
Why airports fit
Airports are controlled environments where products are sold, consumed, discarded, collected, and reported in one operating system.
That makes airports unusually strong for a coordinated sorting system. Concession packaging, bin placement, signage, custodial routing, waste-hauler data, tenant requirements, and passenger education can be aligned around a single carbon recycling routing logic.
Visual operating concept
Make the airport waste system visible enough for passengers and precise enough for operators.
SmartSort works because airports can coordinate the products sold, the labels placed on those products, the bins passengers see, the back-of-house handling process, and the downstream reporting logic.
Passenger-facing route clarity: color, icon, text, QR, and claim-safe education.
Operational route clarity: tenant workflow, custodial handling, hauler data, and MRV.
System modules
SmartSort connects the front end of disposal to the back end of carbon routing.
Matching bins and signs
Passenger-facing bins, tenant areas, kitchen stations, and service corridors use the same route logic so materials stay separated.
Back-of-house routing
Custodial teams, concessionaires, clubs, caterers, and haulers route materials to composting, recycling, AD/RNG, HEFA feedstock, biochar, or approved disposal.
MRV and tenant scorecards
Weights, contamination, scans, collection logs, hauler data, and processing outcomes support reporting without overstating SAF or removal claims.
Waste to Wings
Make sorting visible without claiming every item becomes jet fuel.
Waste to Wings is the passenger-facing education system of SmartSort. It explains that airport waste can support multiple pathways, including future fuel, composting, recycling, RNG, circular materials, verified diversion, and responsible disposal.
- Organic food waste and compostables
- Used cooking oil and fats/greases
- Plastics, paper, paperboard, and cardboard
- Liquids, special materials, and regulated bypass streams
- Back-of-house vendor and hauler workflows
Operational sorting connects passenger behavior to downstream resource routes.
Route taxonomy
Color can help, but SmartSort uses color + icon + text + data.
Accessible and operationally precise sorting combines color with icons, text, material category, downstream route, tenant rules, hauler reporting, and QR-enabled traceability where useful.
SmartSort routeMaterial classLikely downstream pathway
Organic / Food WasteWet biogenic carbonComposting, AD/RNG, biochar, hydrochar, diversion
Used Cooking OilLiquid biogenic carbonHEFA SAF or renewable diesel feedstock aggregation
PlasticUsually fossil solid carbonRecycling, chemical recycling, controlled disposal, careful waste-to-fuels screening
Paper / PaperboardDry fiber-based biogenic carbonRecycling, fiber recovery, diversion, limited bioenergy screening
Mixed / ResidualMixed fossil + biogenic carbonSorting, MSW-to-SAF screening, landfill reduction, disposal
Regulated Aircraft WasteCompliance-controlled materialSeparate handling, approved treatment, bypass from normal recovery routes
Add SmartSort to Phase 0
Begin with a SmartSort readiness review.
Carbon Recycling Technologies can assess packaging, concessions, bin placement, passenger signage, custodial workflows, waste-hauler data, tenant participation, regulated waste boundaries, and MRV before recommending a pilot.