Story ID: 466
Boeing Exceeds Environmental Performance Targets
By: Cathy Buyck
Caption: U.S. company is offering customers the option of using biofuel on delivery flights. 
Word Count: 197
Boeing (Chalet 332 and 335, Static Display C2) said it beat its own 2018 targets for environmental performance, including reducing greenhouse gas emissions by up to 7.3 percent at work sites.

Last year, the U.S. aerospace company unveiled its new environment strategy through 2025 with ambitious goals to innovate products for environmental performance, reduce emissions, waste, and water and energy consumption at work sites, and to work with communities around the globe. It released its 2019 Global Environment Report earlier this month. According to Boeing v-p of environment, health, and safety Bryan Scott, the report “highlights the wide range of efforts surrounding Boeing's environmental stewardship around the globe.”

Projects include a partnership with a UK-based recycler to keep up to two million pounds of excess carbon fiber from Boeing factories out of landfills per year and the use of renewable energy to power Boeing's primary data center, saving enough electricity to power more than 4,000 homes annually.

Boeing also worked with Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates-based Etihad Airways to fly a 787 powered partly by biofuel made from desert plants irrigated with seawater and it is offering customers the option of using biofuel on delivery flights.