Manufacturing Industry

Auto industry failing green grade report.(Transportation equipment industry)

Plastics News, February, 2005 by Toloken, Steve

Byline: Steve Toloken The global auto industry needs to do a better job of using environmentally friendly plastics like those made from plants, and it lags in using recycled content in its plastic parts, a new report charges. The Ecology Center, an Ann Arbor, Mich.-based advocacy group, and Clean Production Action of Spring Brook, N.Y., said in their Feb.

23 report that Toyota Motor Corp. of Tokyo fared best among the six top-selling carmakers in setting up a sustainable plastics program, earning a C. The center also urged car companies to phase out vinyl, The group chose to highlight plastics because they are becoming more prevalent in cars, and because steel and nonferrous metals tend to be readily recovered from junked cars while most plastics are...

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