“United’s amenity kits themselves are not focused on environmental practices, per se. Yet the airline’s sustainability-focused Eco-Skies initiative and partnership with Clean The World, an organization that combats preventable hygiene-related deaths, is worth mentioning. After flights, crew members collect unused items from onboard amenity kits, such as toothpaste and hand sanitizer. The airline then sends them to Clean the World. Volunteers sort and repackage the items into hygiene kits, which can then be distributed to women, children, and veterans in need. Even basic items like these can prevent illness, infection, and other hygiene-related issues. To date, the airline estimates that it has collected over 150,000 pounds of items to create over 75,000 hygiene kits through this partnership. Thus plastics and products that might have been single use are given a new purpose and help others to boot.” …