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19 May 2021 5 min read
Powerful change is happening across industries when it comes to embedding sustainable practices and taking responsibility for the treatment of people and the planet. Some are being pushed by consumers or employees, and then there are those who are leading the charge.
This week Warren Davies speaks with Jamie Forsyth, the founder and CEO of Returnr, a company dedicated to removing single-use packaging from the hospitality industry. Jamie has been passionate about reusables and packaging waste since co-founded KeepCup in 2008.
Warren:
In 2021 we’re asking more from business – to reassert what their license to operate is. I’m interested to know if you’re seeing more of that either in your personal or work life?
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Brisbane Airport isn’t laying blame for the “human error” that led to two red-zone passengers – one who later tested positive for Covid-19 – roaming about the green zone for two hours on Thursday.
“This is not about finger-pointing, it was an innocent mistake,” Brisbane Airport Corporation’s executive general manager of aviation Jim Parashos said on Friday. “What occurred on Thursday was obviously very regrettable and there are some lessons to be learned.”
The two transiting passengers were incorrectly led from the airport’s red zone to its green zone after arriving from Papua New Guinea, which is classified as higher risk. The travellers were given access to the green zone via a checkpoint, which Parashos said: “was an error on the staff’s behalf”.
CCTV footage was reviewed to identify the passengers. At this point, Queensland Health was notified of the breach. The pair was located and removed from the green zone around two hours later. “Being an airport, there is extensive CCTV which allows us to act very quickly,” Parashos said. “[We were] able to identify every point and every single contact point during those two hours.” “The determination was that it was relatively low risk based on the CCTV footage – [there was] social distancing, of course, masks are mandatory on aircraft and in the terminal – so that was the advice from Queensland Health.”