Recycling can take many forms, both process-driven – and creative.

On enviro.aero, we are highlighting the ways in which the aviation industry is using technology and operational procedures to get better use out of aircraft while they are in service. There is also a lot of work being done by a number of players to work out how we can get the best use from planes once their flying days are up.

I really like this video which shows, in high speed, how recycling an aircraft is done properly.

It is estimated that something like 95% of an airliner is able to be salvaged and used again for a variety of purposes. But there are less… destructive… ways of recycling the workhorses of the aviation industry.

When I was growing up in rural New Zealand, one of the highlights of a family trip to the ‘big city’ of Auckland was stopping off at a converted DC3 that had been turned into a tea-rooms and tourist attraction for the small village of Mangaweka…

But I have just heard that Swedish entrepreneur Oscar Dios has gone one step further – he is opening a hostel in a retired 747-200. 

I know where I am staying when I am in Stockholm next!

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