Groups collaborate to put plastics back into vehicles

A cooperative research project backed by automakers, the plastics industry and the US government is looking to reduce the amount of automotive plastics ending up in landfills and instead divert it back into vehicles. The automobile industry's Vehicle Recycling Partnership, the American Plastics...

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Published in:Automotive News 2003-12, Vol.78 (6073), p.16-16D
Main Author: Miel, Rhoda
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Automobile industry
Councils
Environmental aspects
Federal government
Industrial research
Laboratories
Landfill
Laws, regulations and rules
Plastics industry
Recycling
Scrap
Vehicles
Waste management
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Summary:A cooperative research project backed by automakers, the plastics industry and the US government is looking to reduce the amount of automotive plastics ending up in landfills and instead divert it back into vehicles. The automobile industry's Vehicle Recycling Partnership, the American Plastics Council, and the Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory unveiled an upgraded pilot recycling unit at the laboratory in Argonne IL and promised to chip in to fund the project's $2 million annual budget for a five-year study.
ISSN:0005-1551
1557-7686