Friday, January 13, 2012

Ford Focus Electric to get Interior Made From Recycled Bottles

Those heading to the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) and/or the 2012 Detroit Auto Show may want to recycle their plastic bottles while at the convention center. Ford and Unifi will be collecting plastic water bottles constructed of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) from the two shows and will recycle them to make the Repreve seating material found in the EV.

Repreve is a mixture of post-industrial fiber waste and post-consumer waste such as the PET plastic water bottles. Apparently each Ford Focus Electric will use about 22 plastic bottles in its interior and Ford and Unifi hopes to help divert 2 million plastic bottles from landfills. According to Ford, right now, the Focus EV is approximately 90-percent recyclable, but they?re working on making that 100-percent.

Source: http://www.findata.co.nz/News/14163660/Ford_Focus_Electric_to_get_Interior_Made_From_Recycled_Bottles.htm

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