Mazda properly processes and recycles three designated items (fluorocarbons, airbags, and automobile shredder residue [ASR]) pursuant to the End-of-Life Vehicle Recycling Law in Japan. In addition, the Company is creating unique technologies and measures to move this recycling program forward.
In the case of ASR, Mazda is working through ART,* a consortium of 13 key companies including Mazda, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., and Mitsubishi Motors Corporation, to comply with the law and achieve progress in the reuse of resources.
The Company is also actively encouraging recycling efforts at dealerships. These dealerships properly take vehicles and collect recycling fees from their final owners and transfer them to processing companies.
- *ART: Automobile Shredder Residue Recycling Promotion Team
| Recycling ratio for ELVs | 97% |
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| Number of vehicles from which fluorocarbon is collected | 150,659 | |
| Number of vehicles from which airbags are collected | 112,627 |
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| Number of vehicles from which ASR is collected | 190,429 | |
| Recycling ratio | Airbags | 94.0% |
| ASR | 82.1% | |
| Total contracting deposits received | 1,728,037,169yen | |
| Total expenses for recycling | 1,600,288,873yen* | |
- *Includes separate fee collected by Mazda
Mazda is committed to the recycling of vehicles overseas in accordance with the laws in each country and region.
- Based on European legislation, Mazda collects used vehicles from their final owners and pays all or part of the recycling fees.
- Mazda is partnering with the Ford Group to form a network for the collection of end-of-life vehicles.
- In response to a voluntary vehicle recycling initiative begun in 2008, Mazda is partnering with the Ford Group in efforts including the provision and distribution of dismantling manuals for recycling contractors.
- Mazda is collecting and studying detailed information in response to the implementation of the Vehicle Recycling Law.
Mazda is working hard to develop material recycling so that waste products previously incinerated or sent to landfills can be reused as raw materials.
Research to demonstrate a technology that recycles ELV glass as a material for producing new automobile glass (joint research project with eight other automakers*)
- *Mazda Motor Corp., Isuzu Motors Ltd., Suzuki Motor Corp., Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd., Mitsubishi Motors Corp., Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corp., UD Trucks Corp.
