Airbus commits to aircraft recycling.

Two years after the launch of the Pamela test phase,Airbus and Sita, the waste management subsidiary of Suez Environnement, will kick-start theindustrial phase of their aircraft dismantling project in October 2008. Their dismantling andrecycling platform, dubbed Tarmac, has a storage capacity for 22 aircraft and aims todismantle between 20 and 30 aircraft per year. Beyond environmental concerns, the stake ofthis project for Airbus is the dominance of the spare-part market. Within the next 20 years,the number of end-of-life aircraft should reach up to 6,000 units, or 300 per year in average.
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