{"id":98880908,"date":"2011-11-01T12:59:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-01T12:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/travel-trends\/chicago-airports-going-green\/"},"modified":"2021-11-10T10:21:29","modified_gmt":"2021-11-10T15:21:29","slug":"chicago-airports-going-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/chicago-airports-going-green\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Airports Going Green"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago\u2019s two main airports announced green initiatives this week during the Airports Going Green conference in the Windy City.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Officials at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/airports\/flights-to-chicago-o'hare-international-airport-ord\">O\u2019Hare International Airport<\/a> pledged to dedicate up to 60 acres for the installation of solar panels and also announced plans to build an on-site service station that will sell alternative fuels for commercial and personal vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, officials at Midway Airport announced a new composting program that will recycle food waste and cardboard from the airport\u2019s 13 restaurants.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Construction at O\u2019Hare is expected to begin about a year from now while the composting program at Midway should launch much sooner.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.chicagotribune.com\/2011-10-31\/news\/chi-chicago-airports-announce-plans-to-go-green-20111031_1_alternative-fuels-solar-power-composting-program\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Chicago Tribune <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Installing solar panels,&#8221; Flickr photo credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/oregondot\/3049033225\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">OregonDOT <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago\u2019s two main airports announced green initiatives this week during the Airports Going Green conference in the Windy City. &nbsp; Officials at O\u2019Hare International Airport pledged to dedicate up to 60 acres for the installation of solar panels and also announced plans to build an on-site service station that will sell alternative fuels for commercial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98880908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98880908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98880908"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98880908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98909069,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98880908\/revisions\/98909069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98880908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98880908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98880908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}