Chrysler getting greener?

March 3rd, 2008 · No Comments · Environment, Going Green, GreenTech, Recycling
Post written by Jason

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At Chrysler’s St. Louis Assembly Plant in Missouri Chrysler is putting paint over spray to work in an innovative and green way. The paint over spray is collected by a pool of water under the paint booth. The water is then drained leaving behind mush of paint over spray that is loaded into a truck and taken down to the nearby power plant to be mixed with coal to be burned to create power. This process offsets about 570 tons of coal a year and another cool byproduct of the mixture is that the titanium oxide used in the paint rids the coal of the trace amounts of mercury that would other wise be released into the air.httpv://youtube.com/watch?v=0fUisqq-Fa0Source: St. Louis Assembly Plant: From Paint to Power Chrysler’s Environmental Responsibility site

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