The Naples Airport Authority (NAA) and its Fixed-Base Operator, Naples Aviation, were honored as a Recycling Champion by the Florida Recycling Partnership Foundation, a coalition of businesses and associations dedicated to improving Florida’s recycling rates while implementing initiatives to reduce waste and expand sustainability programs.
The Foundation’s annual Recycling Champions Awards recognizes companies, organizations, governmental entities and individuals that have made a significant impact on advancing recycling and sustainability across the state. Honorees include those demonstrating innovation and leadership in recycling, as well as areas such as water reuse, energy efficiency, sustainability, infrastructure and environmental stewardship.
In announcing the Recycling Champions Awards, the Foundation singled out two sustainability programs at Naples Airport. The first program is a Transformative Fuel Initiative to promote widespread adoption of cleaner, efficient aviation practices. Naples Airport offers Unleaded Aviation Gasoline (UL 94), a clean-burning alternative to Aviation Gasoline (AvGas), and Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAF), a low-carbon, alternative fuel from non-petroleum sources. Naples Aviation was the first FBO on the East Coast to regularly offer SAF. It also provided a $250 credit to tenants that obtained a Supplement Type Certificate to use UL 94. Today, more than 20% of fuel sales are alternative fuels.