The European Commission has selected the Airbus-led aircraft recycling project PAMELA (Process for Advanced Management of End-of-Life of Aircraft) as one of its L'Instrument Financier pour l'Environment (LIFE) projects.
Airbus, together with partners SITA, EADS CCR, Sogerma Services and the Hautes-Pyrenees regional authority will now set up a special centre at Tarbes airport in south-west France where it will test procedures for decommissioning and recycling aircraft in safe and environmentally responsible conditions.
Airbus expects more than 4,000 airliners (about 200 aircraft a year) will reach their end of life between 2004 and 2023.
The idea behind the $2.8 million PAMELA project is to make sure that decommissioned aircraft do not end up rusting away on the side of airfields. The project wants to demonstrate that 85-95% of an aircraft's components can be easily recycled, reused or recovered.
PAMELA will cover the whole process from storage at the decommissioning phase, to dismantling and recycling or elimination of the materials.
Airbus, together with partners SITA, EADS CCR, Sogerma Services and the Hautes-Pyrenees regional authority will now set up a special centre at Tarbes airport in south-west France where it will test procedures for decommissioning and recycling aircraft in safe and environmentally responsible conditions.
Airbus expects more than 4,000 airliners (about 200 aircraft a year) will reach their end of life between 2004 and 2023.
The idea behind the $2.8 million PAMELA project is to make sure that decommissioned aircraft do not end up rusting away on the side of airfields. The project wants to demonstrate that 85-95% of an aircraft's components can be easily recycled, reused or recovered.
PAMELA will cover the whole process from storage at the decommissioning phase, to dismantling and recycling or elimination of the materials.
Source: Flight Daily News
