Pollution Prevention to Reduce Maintenance Costs and Emissions at Robins AFB
Robins Air Force Base [RAFB] was born during WWII as an Army Air Depot, and continues to supply parts for maintenance and repair of missile systems, aircraft, and avionics vital to US defense. Today it covers over 8400 acres with over 14 million square feet of facilities (including 3.8 million square feet of maintenance shops) and employs a workforce of nearly 20,000. In 1988, the RAFB Directorate of Environmental Management was established, with Pollution Prevention (P2) as one of the "Four Pillars" of its program. RAFB P2 efforts result in reduction of personal protective equipment, legal and medical liability, hazardous waste disposal, process time labor, tracking, storing & permitting reporting, and cost & production time.
One of RAFB's EM goals is to develop technology advances directed towards transforming depot maintenance activities to meet future challenges - such as minimization of pollution generating materials, reducing hazardous material dependency, enhancing total Ownership Cost risk levels, and others.
