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Aug 10, 2021 (newstodate): With financial support from the EU, Vilnius Airport is planning the construction of an automated aircraft de-icing recycling plant in 2022.  
   Lithuanian Airports has thus opened a public procurement tender for the design of the plant, building contracting, and the installation of the necessary technological equipment, with the successful tenderer undertaking to install storage and concentrated sewage tanks, and a separate treatment facility containing the necessary treatment technologies.
   Four de-icing sites will be installed: Two on each of the north and south sides. During de-icing operations, the materials collected on the available surface sewage networks will be forwarded to the treatment facility in the southern part of the airport.
   Today, after anti-icing processes at Vilnius Airport, the aircraft, in many cases, must travel a considerable distance to the runway, which also means a waste of time until possible repeated icing.
   The coming Vilnius Airport treatment facility may also treat sewage generated at the airports of Kaunas and Palanga, with used fluid to be collected in tanks and then transported for treatment to the automated treatment and recycling plant.