Recycling at Salt Lake International Airport

Posted on January 2, 2006 | Leave a comment

The Recycling Coalition of Utah has recognized the Recycling Program at the SLC Airport as the “Local Government Recycling Program of the Year.”

Get this:

  • [SLC’s Airport’s Recycling Efforts]It’s added up to about 150 tons of plastic items and newspapers over the past three years

  • An additional 89 tons of office paper has been diverted from the landfill, as has more than 900 tires, 660 batteries and 250 tons of scrap metal.
  • the airport is reprocessing the glycol used to de-ice aircraft, recycling motor oil and reusing truckloads of construction material (The airport built a glycol recycling plant nine years ago to capture the chemicals and transform them into glycol that can be used again.)

    Airlines and construction workers at the airport have started participating and are realizing the environmental and money-saving impacts of the program. In addition, the airport also resells its cardboard, resulting in a $15,000 savings per year.

    Other waste reduction efforts include constructing and maintaining 450 acres of wetlands on the edge of the Great Salt Lake west of the airport and replacing sod with low-water landscaping.

    This is quite impressive and a great example for other agencies and businesses in the state.

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