SNCF has announced that it will no longer sell plastic bottles in its TGVs

SNCF announced on Thursday, 14 October, that it will no longer sell plastic bottles in its TGV and Intercités, and will favor environmentally friendly packaging. The company sells 2 million a year in its railroad bars, water is the second product sold after coffee. “It was a real paradox that we put millions [d’euros] to have 97% recyclable TGVs that were sold in plastic bottles there “, explained to AFP the director of Voyages SNCF, Alain Krakovitch.

Plastic bottles will be replaced with cardboard packaging for standing water and aluminum cans for sparkling water, both sold under the name “L’Eau Neuve” and from the Pyrenees. The company intends to install interactive terminals on trains in 2022 to order before you go to take your order at the bar. The menu, revised, will focus more on organic and French products, and will offer a vegetarian option. “We are in the process of setting up coffee dispensers” pod work, also underlined Alain Krakovitch.

SNCF, which aims to be an example of a green mode of transport, also promises “implementing innovative logistics schemes to promote cost recycling at stations and reduce food waste”. Selective selection is gradually generalized on board its trains.