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Budget airline EasyJet has announced plans to run a series of trials at Bristol Airport in a bid to reduce its carbon footprint.

The airport said the partnership was also geared towards its own ambition to achieve a zero-emissions turnaround at Bristol.

EasyJet will use new technology to try to cut, or eliminate, emissions from aircraft ground operations. The company already offsets the carbon emissions from the fuel used on its flights.

It is hoped that any successful results from the trials will have the potential to be rolled out across the carrier's network which spans 150 airports across 35 countries.

Projects and trials will include work in the following areas:

• electric ground power units

• sustainable aviation fuels

• electric passenger coach transportation

• recycling and waste management

• employee carbon-saving initiatives

• supply chain carbon reductions

• aircraft continuous descent approaches

• zero-carbon-emission aircraft turnarounds

• Neo aircraft deployment and fleet optimisation

Jane Ashton, director of sustainability at EasyJet, said the partnership was a "good example" of how the airline could look at every aspect of its operations.

"[We are] really challenging how we do things by implementing the newest technological solutions across a series of decarbonisation and waste reduction trials over the coming months," she said.

Simon Earles, sustainability and corporate affairs director at Bristol Airport, said the transport hub was taking its commitments to address climate change "seriously".