Nissan Motors Provides Recycling Update

Nissan Motor Co. Ltd., Yokohama, Japan, has released a progress report on its recycling/recovery efforts in Japan for the past fiscal year. Nissan announced its recovery results for automobile shredder residue (ASR), airbag-related products and fluorocarbons recovered from end-of-life vehicles (ELVs), in accordance with the Japan Automobile Recycling Law.

The report says in fiscal year 2010 Nissan recovered 108,500 tons of the nearly 130,000 tons of ASR collected from more than 615,000 ELVs, resulting in an 83.7 percent recovery rate. The Japan Automobile Recycling law mandates an ASR recovery rate of 70 percent or greater by 2015.

Nissan also reports that it recovered more than 1.2 million airbag-related products from nearly 450,000 vehicles through its recovery processing and on-board deployment operations.

According to a Nissan report, the cost of the recycling efforts for the specified materials amounted to nearly 6 million yen ($74 million). But recycling fees and income generated from the fund for vehicle recycling totaled more than 6.5 million yen ($82 million).

The company’s goal, as spelled out in its Green Program 2010, is to reuse and recover 100 percent of the materials generated b y ELVs.