 
Closed Air Force Bases Open for Green Business: Recycling on a grand scale
After the “Big Green Machine” dismantles electronics at California Electronic Asset Recovery and a magnet removes steel parts, some of the company’s 70 workers sort larger pieces of non-ferrous metals and plastics. Sorted parts continue through further automated cleaning processes before recycling. (Courtesy photo)
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Posted: 5/15/2012
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Closed Air Force Bases Open for Green Business: Recycling on a grand scale
Depending on its size, a single aircraft can yield from 40,000 to 250,000 pounds of parts, according to Doug Scroggins of Aircraft Recycling Corporation. In addition to tearing up planes, the company sells aircraft parts. (Photo by Scott Johnston)
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Posted: 5/15/2012
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Closed Air Force Bases Open for Green Business: Recycling on a grand scale
Some aircraft spend their final days at the former George Air Force Base in Victorville, Calif., being broken down into component parts by the Aircraft Recycling Corporation. (Photo by Scott Johnston)
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Posted: 5/15/2012
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Closed Air Force Bases Open for Green Business: Recycling on a grand scale
BEFORE -- Thousand of cans of leftover or unwanted paint are sorted and shelved at Visions Recycling, Inc., located at the former McClellan Air Force Base, prior to blending. "We can make any color," says owner Jerry Noel, a former painting contractor. (Courtesy photo)
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Posted: 5/15/2012
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Closed Air Force Bases Open for Green Business: Recycling on a grand scale
AFTER - Recycled paint is displayed at a hardware store with the company slogan, "Saving the Planet One Gallon at a Time." Visions sold 140,000 gallons of recycled paint in 2011. (Courtesy photo)
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Posted: 5/15/2012
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Closed Air Force Bases Open for Green Business: Recycling on a grand scale
Mountains of e-waste fill a huge storage building at the former Mather Air Force Base, now home to California Electronic Asset Recovery. CEAR recycled approximately 22 million pounds of e-waste in 2011 and is expanding into a second building at Mather. (Courtesy photo)
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Posted: 5/15/2012
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Closed Air Force Bases Open for Green Business: Recycling on a grand scale
At reRubber, 100 percent of each tire is recycled. Metal parts are removed and the rubber is ground into fine powder, which is used to create sealant and coating products. (Photo by Scott Johnston)
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Posted: 5/15/2012
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Closed Air Force Bases Open for Green Business: Recycling on a grand scale
J.D. Wang, CEO of reRubber, is bringing 120 green jobs to his factory in the former Norton Air Force Base commissary. The company, headquartered in nearby Ontario, Calif., recycles some of the 300 million tires scrapped in the U.S. each year into products like flooring for playgrounds. (Photo by Scott Johnston)
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Posted: 5/15/2012
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$41.5M Environmental Cleanup Contract Awarded at Former George AFB
The Air Force has been working to clean up pollution at the former George AFB since 1981. A new Performance Based Remediation Contract will close an estimated 18 of 33 remaining active cleanup sites over the next eight years, resulting in unrestricted use of those sites. (Photo by Scott Johnston)
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Posted: 4/16/2012
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Public Benefit Conveyance
Sprouting seedlings will be transplanted to a 22-acre organic farm, and eventually harvested and sold at a farmers market to benefit homeless people in Miami, Florida. The Air Force transferred about 80 acres of the former Homestead Air Force Base to the Miami-Dade County Homeless Trust via a Public Benefit Conveyance to provide supportive housing, the farm, and other amenities for homeless people in the area. (Photo by Scott Johnston)
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Posted: 4/5/2012
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Public Benefit Conveyance
Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport received a Public Benefit Conveyance of 3,022 acres at the former Williams Air Force Base in Mesa, closed since 1993. Designed as a reliever airport for busy Sky Harbor Airport in nearby Phoenix, Gateway served nearly one million passengers in 2011. (Photo by Scott Johnston)
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Posted: 4/5/2012
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Mather Cleared for Transfer to Sacramento County
The final and biggest chunk of land, totaling 3,533 acres at the closed Mather Air Force Base, has been cleared for deed transfer.
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Posted: 3/26/2012
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