bumper recycling

Mazda claims to have become the world's first automaker to successfully recycle scrapped bumpers from end-of-life vehicles into raw materials for new bumpers (Ford may disagree). Mazda inaugurated this technology on August 21, and says it will initially be put to use for rear bumpers on its ...

In 2009, Ford UK dealers collected 23,000 ruined bumpers from cars that had been in accidents. Why would they do this? In order to do a bit of recycling. Some of the material from those bumpers is now back in action, having been turned into bumpers – and other plastic parts – used in ...

Ahhh, the corporate press release. In these missives, there is no detail too small to highlight something a company is doing. Those of us in the green auto media are pretty used to seeing announcements of dubious value come through our in boxes. I don't remember seeing one purely devoted to bumper ...