Rethinking Recycling: Japanese firm turning ELV plastic into new parts
Toronto, Ontario — A leading Japanese plastic manufacturer is altering the way some end-of-life vehicles are recycled. Toyoda Gosei has introduced a new recycling technology that transforms plastic from ELVs into a high-quality material suitable for new automotive parts. After processing plastics, the material is reprocessed by Isono and sold back to OEMs for reuse. […]
Driving Sustainability: IRT’s webinar, ‘Pioneering Sustainable Solutions’ taking place today, February 13,12:00 p.m. GMT
Toronto, Ontario — The International Round Table on Automotive Recycling’s (IRT) webinar, “Pioneering Sustainable Solutions: The Future of Automotive Plastics Recycling” is set to begin today at 12:00 p.m. GMT. This webinar is open to anyone who is a part of the automotive recycling community, and will include topics such as the key aspects involved […]
Molecular Management: Molecular recycling study demonstrates potential closed-loop solution for automotive plastic waste
Toronto, Ontario — Material technology company Eastman says it has developed a new method to recycle automotive plastic waste at a molecular level. Specifically, Eastman’s technology takes automotive shredder residue (ASR) or “auto fluff” and uses this as the feedstock in the recycling process. After breaking down otherwise hard-to-recycle plastics, the new material is then […]
Team with Tandem: Repurposing plastics with Tandem Recycling
Montreal, Quebec — If you have automotive plastics you don’t know what you do with—give Tandem Recycling a call. Tandem Recycling collects end-of-life automotive plastics for recycling, where the company then turns it into remanufactured plastic resin. Remanufactured plastic resin can be used in injection molded products like auto parts, industrial components, pallets, tank containers, […]
Enough Fluff: Standard Auto Wreckers owner calls for better plastic recycling procedure from OEMs
Scarborough, Ontario — A Toronto-area auto recycler has received some mainstream attention for his calls to automakers to develop recycling procedures that properly account for non-metal waste, which often winds up in a landfill. In a story published to the Toronto Star last Friday, president of Scarborough’s Standard Auto Wreckers, and known quantity to Canadian […]
