Volvo Cars has joined the war on plastic, with the premium car maker announcing plans to make a quarter of the material used in its cars from recycled material by 2025.
“Volvo Cars is committed to minimising its global environmental footprint,” said Håkan Samuelsson, President and CEO of Volvo Cars.
“Environmental care is one of Volvo’s core values and we will continue to find new ways to bring this into our business. This car and our recycled plastics ambition are further examples of that commitment.”
To promote its aim, Volvo followed the announcement by unveiling a specially-built XC60 built using recycled plastic components. Its interior has a tunnel console made from renewable fibres and plastics from discarded fishing nets and maritime rope, carpets containing fibres made from PET plastic bottles and a recycled cotton mix from clothing manufacturers’ offcuts, and seats also using PET fibres from plastic bottles. Used car seats from old Volvo cars were used to create the sound-absorbing material under the car bonnet.
The recycled plastics ambition is another demonstration of Volvo Cars’ ongoing goal of reducing its environmental impact following on from a recent commitment to eradicate the use of single-use plastics across all its premises and events by the end of 2019. Last year, it was announced that all new Volvo cars launched after 2019 would feature electric power, and last month Volvo Cars reinforced this by stating that it aims for fully electric cars to make up half of all its global sales by 2025. Volvo’s environmental commitment extends to its manufacturing processes, which it aims to be fully climate-neutral 2025, and in January this year it made a huge step towards this when it announced that the engine plant in Skövde, Sweden, had become its first climate-neutral facility.
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