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Measures Taken at the Development Stage
Pursuit of Recyclability through the Development of Technologies
Honda is aggressively developing technologies to make effective use of resin materials, which are difficult to reuse or recycle. Based on newly developed technologies, we are examining the possibility of reusing or recycling wasted resin materials as parts for new products or as repair parts.

Recycling technology for materials for covering instrument panels
In the production of instrument panels, it is important to reuse the material wasted from the punching process. Initially, it was difficult to reuse the waste because it was made of PVC and PPF. By the development of sorting technologies and devices, however, it became possible to recycle PVC materials. In 2002, it was decided to use only olefins as the covering material. Now the waste is crushed and recycled into pellets to be used for injection molding by adding virgin PP and talc (materials that provide rigidity). The pellets are used as resin materials for defroster ducts, etc.

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