Ford seat fabric promote PET plastic bottle recycling

REPREVE from recycled plastic bottles and made ​​from post-consumer waste, Ford Motor Company’s brand through the use of REPREVE seat fabric, push the PET plastic recycling. The new Ford F-150 pickup truck using Repreve fibers in the interior, including the use of recycled materials including PET made.
REPREVE is a North Carolina Greensboro UNIFI company produces 100% recycled yarn. Each Ford Focus electric car will use about 22 recycled plastic bottles to manufacture automotive interior. Ford’s chief designer Carol sustainable materials, said: “Ford Focus electric car’s interior materials are first manufactured from 100% clean technology from Ford and other renewable or sustainable materials used include: Soybean foam cushions and head restraints, wheat straw filled plastic for the dashboard diesel castor beans, used to regenerate the resin chassis systems and natural fiber plastic for interior parts.

Currently, the US outdated beverage recycling rate is (half utilization in Europe) only 29%, so Ford’s clean energy technology will be possible to improve the recycling of plastics America.
Ford’s global sustainability strategy development material CarolKordich chief designer said in a statement: “Through the new Ford F-150 for use Repreve, we reaffirm the commitment to use renewable and renewable materials in Ford, we always We seek to be more innovative, more sustainable materials Narufute car. ”
Ford announced that it expects to use recycled PET from 5 million that would otherwise be landfilled plastic bottles. It is reported that, Repreve fiber from 2012 has been used in several other Ford models.

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