Environment
Using advanced technologies and innovation, Boeing is
building a better planet.
Our Environment Policy
Boeing is committed to:
- Conduct operations in compliance with applicable environmental laws, regulations, and Boeing policies and procedures.
- Prevent pollution by conserving energy and resources, recycling, reducing waste, and pursuing other source reduction strategies.
- Continually improve our environmental management system.
- Work together with our stakeholders on activities that promote environmental protection and stewardship.
ecoDemonstrator
Boeing’s ecoDemonstrator Program accelerates innovation by taking promising technologies out of the lab and testing them in the air to solve real-world challenges for airlines, passengers and the environment. Eight airplanes have served as flying test beds for the program since it began in 2012.
Research & Innovation
Boeing Research & Technology’s technicians, technologists, engineers and scientists collaborate with partners around the world to solve environmental challenges.
As the advanced central research and development organization of The Boeing Company, Boeing Research & Technology (BR&T) provides innovative technologies that enable the development of future aerospace solutions while improving the cost, quality, efficiency and performance of Boeing products.
This includes finding innovative solutions around the world to improve environmental performance.
From researching biofuels, fuel cells and hybrid electric propulsion to improving air traffic management, finding sustainable composite materials and exploring new chemical coatings that resist corrosion, our team of technicians, technologists, engineers and scientists collaborate with research and development partners around the world to solve today and tomorrow’s environmental challenges.
Boeing Research & Technology has also partnered and contracted with the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in researching both next generation and futuristic technologies and concepts that could make aerospace products more environmentally efficient.
Remediation
Each year, thousands of people visit Santa Susana in Simi Valley, Calif., to learn more about the site’s important place in history and experience firsthand its beauty and biodiversity.
Boeing’s remediation program is focused on using innovative approaches in cleanup efforts to ensure the protection of human health and the environment, coupled with the use of invaluable input from community members and environmental groups. This, combined with the guidance of leading environmental scientists and federal and state regulatory agencies, has led to great progress in cleaning up remediation sites. Boeing also often collaborates with wildlife and conservation organizations to restore habitat for the benefit of wildlife and the community.
Environment Features
Boeing unveils 2022 ecoDemonstrator
June 16, 2022 in Environment, Technology
This week Boeing unveiled its 2022 ecoDemonstrator airplane, marking 10 years of testing technologies through the program.
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Products, people and partnerships advance Boeing’s sustainable future
June 05, 2019 in Our Environment, Environment
From building the most fuel-efficient aircraft on the market to finding a creative second life for excess carbon fiber, innovations, new technologies and worldwide environmental initiatives are driving Boeing’s progress toward a more sustainable future.
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Boeing offers biofuel to customers flying their new commercial jets home
March 08, 2019 in Our Environment, Environment
Option available for Boeing deliveries from Puget Sound, will then expand sustainable aviation fuel opportunity to other Boeing sites.
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Preparing for takeoff: Biofuel on every flight at Sea-Tac Airport
December 18, 2015 in Environment, Commercial
Boeing is working with all-737 customer Alaska Airlines and the Port of Seattle to move toward a significant environmental goal: powering all flights by all airlines at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport with sustainable aviation biofuel.
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