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“In 2009, Ford reduced the amount of automotive-related plastics to landfills by nearly 30 million pounds”
Making cars more fuel efficient, and eventually run 100% on clean and renewable energy, is a great goal. But in parallel, it is important to clean up the materials and processes used to make the cars themselves. Steel is already widely recycled, but what about all the other materials (foams, plastics, fabrics, etc)? Most automakers have been working on that problem, and the latest news from that front comes from Ford. So what did they do?… Read the full story on TreeHugger