Volvo Plastic Parts Will Be 25% Recycled Plastic by 2025, Company Says

First it says its car fleet will all be partly electric by 2019, now Volvo is taking another step toward sustainability by making its cars with recycled plastic in assembly line-installed parts. The automaker said that a full one-quarter of the plastic used in its production parts in 2025 will be from recycled goods, such as bottles, fishing nets or packaging. Volvo, which is owned by a Chinese company, currently has a roughly 5% recycled plastics usage in its production models, and will be implementing the recycled materials in such places like the floor carpeting and the sound absorbing layers in the bonnet of the car.   At least 25 percent of the plastics used in new Volvo car models from 2025 will be from recycled materials, the Chinese-owned company said on Monday in an anti-pollution plan praised by the United Nations. Recycled plastics - such as from fishing nets or old bottles in car dashboards or carpets, would not affect safety or quality, Stuart Templar, director for sustainability at Volvo Cars, told Reuters. “We think this makes business sense,” he said. Many big companies are designing products that can be recycled after use to limit pollution. Volvo’s plan goes a step further by building ever more recycled materials into its production lines.“Volvo Cars is committed to minimizing its global environmental footprint,” Håkan Samuelsson, president and CEO of Volvo Cars, which is owned by China’s Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co Ltd, said in a statement. Click Here to Continue Reading

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