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Waste Treatment Cleans Wichita Environment
Employee John Ball monitors the water quality of the innovative water recycling system at the Boeing industrial waste water treatment facility in Wichita.
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Wichita, Kansas — About two million gallons of industrial waste water are treated and reused each day at the Boeing plant here. In 1998, the waste water treatment process was further enhanced to make it a “closed-loop” system, replacing the old “treat-and- discharge” system. As
a leader in aerospace environmental technology, the company continues
to pioneer materials and processes that lead to a cleaner, healthier
environment. For example, new paints and solvents are providing customers
better performance, with less environmental impact. A new paint for
the Boeing C-17 cargo aircraft dramatically increases durability,
while reducing weight. We are working to sustain our environment in many other ways, including energy-efficient facility design, chemical reduction, chemical management programs, materials reduction, and recycling. We currently recycle more than 100 commodities. In many of our larger plants, we recycle nearly 60 percent of the waste stream. In 1998, we joined the Business Environmental Leadership council of the non-profit Pew Center on Global Climate Change. The company also won a special recognition award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Climate Wise program for efforts to reduce gasses that may lead to the “greenhouse” effect in the Earth’s atmosphere.
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