Torino Airport has for some time been implementing various circular economy and biodiversity protection initiatives such as, for example, the adoption of a ‘poor grass regime’ to make the grassy areas of the airport grounds unattractive to avifauna and fauna and thus minimise the risk of wildlife strikes and reduce the total working hours of agricultural tractors in order to contain environmental pollution.
Other projects related to soil and biodiversity protection, which continued in 2024, include the one concerning the incorporation of biochar, carbonaceous material obtained through the thermal degradation of biomass, within some grassland areas bordering the airport grounds, as part of an experimental package of the European TULIPS project. The aim of the experimentation is to demonstrate the role of this product in carbon ‘sequestration’ in airport areas. The technique applied enjoys high replicability, and the model tested on our site will be replicated at Amsterdam Schiphol and Larnaca airports.
Finally, for many years now, thanks to careful long-term planning of construction sites, Turin Airport has been adopting methods that allow extensive reuse of demolition materials, limiting the amount of waste leaving the site to a minimum.
