Greentech Lead America: Â Pratt & Whitney has set new sustainability goals to improve the sustainability of its factories, suppliers and products by 2025 and increase efficiencies, create added value for its customers and employees, and lead industry efforts to reduce aviation’s environmental impact.
Pratt & Whitney’s global sustainability goals for 2025 focus on Waste, Energy, Water, Safety & Wellness, Materials, Suppliers and Products. The company’s sustainability improvements to date demonstrate a record of leadership, achievement and commitment.
The 2025 goals and Pratt & Whitney’s achievements to reduce its environmental impact include zero waste or 100 percent recycled. Since 2006, P&W has reduced its total industrial process waste by 30 percent, or 14 million pounds.
The company hopes reduce greenhouse gases by 80 percent. Since 2006, P&W has reduced greenhouse gases by 30 percent in its factories – 232,000 metric tons of CO2. P&W also reduced air emissions from chemicals by 60 percent or 117,000 pounds.
In water consumption, the company hopes to reduce consumption by 80 percent. Since 2006, P&W has reduced water use by 39 percent or 368 million gallons.
Further the company will ensure our engines are 100 percent recyclable at the end of their life.  Our products will maximize the amount of recycled or reverted metals and contain no materials of concern.
The company also plans to make its engines the most fuel efficient and quietest on the market.
P&W is well on its way to meeting that goal with its exclusive Geared Turbofan technology that provides up to 16 percent reduction in fuel burn compared with other modern engines – plus significantly lower emissions, noise and maintenance cost.
The PurePower engine family cuts carbon emissions by 3,000 tons per aircraft per year (equal to the effect of planting more than 700,000 trees), reduces aircraft noise footprints by 50 to 75 percent (operating 15 to 20dB below today’s most stringent standard – ICAO Stage 4), and will surpass the most stringent standards (CAEP/6) by 50 percent for nitrogen oxides (NOx).
Pratt & Whitney has invested almost $60 million in more than 800 environmental projects since 2006 and demonstrates its leadership in global sustainability through its innovative products and services.  Pratt & Whitney collaborates with suppliers and communities to reduce its global environmental footprint and increase natural resource efficiencies in its factories.