Eco-efficient ways to manage end-of-life aircraft

Airbus is setting the standards for smart dismantling and recycling of aircraft that have reached the end of their service life. The Airbus-initiated PAMELA (Process for Advanced Management of End-of-Life Aircraft) project -- which tests environmentally-friendly recycling procedures with retired airliners -- has determined that some 80 per cent of all materials from these aircraft can be reused or repurposed. Comments from Olivier Malavallon, director of the PAMELA project, are featured.

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• eco-efficiency
• environment
• end-of-life
• aircraft
• pamela
• project
• environmentally-friendly
• olivier
• malavallon
• recycling
• reuse
• repurpose
• tests
• dismantling
• retired
• airliner