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Boeing-led consortium that reprocesses and recycles aircraft and aircraft components.
The BBC reports that it can take 12 weeks and a lot of elbow grease, but planes are recycled when they are too old or not needed anymore.
BBC reporter Chris Ledgard visits Chateauroux in France where old planes are sent to be cut up and recycled.