Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., recently announced that its recovery rate for automobile shredder residues (ASRs) in fiscal year 2005 stood at 67.9% which is above the 30% legal requirement in Japan for fiscal 2005 and the 50% requirement for fiscal year 2010.
Nissan said it recovered 107,078.3 tons of ASR from 531,211 vehicles and that 72,726.0 tons were recycled. The 67.9% recovery rate is equivalent to an end-of-life vehicle recovery rate of 94%, according to Nissan’s in-house standards.
The company's airbag recovery rate for fiscal 2005 was 93.5%, above the 85% requirement for fiscal 2005. A total of 267,030 airbags from 146,443 vehicles were recovered. Nissan also collected and destroyed 144,346 kgs of chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) and hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) refrigerants from 444,572 vehicles.
Nissan paid a total of 4.85 billion yen to recover and recycle ASRs, airbags, CFCs and HFCs in fiscal 2005. The total amount received from the recycling fee collection agency was 4.62 billion yen, resulting in a deficit of 228.61 million yen for fiscal 2005.
Nissan is continuously striving to improve the recoverability rate of its vehicles to 95% by designing cars that are easier to dismantle. The Note and March have already achieved that rate, according to Nissan’s in-house standards.
“Nissan has a strict environmental policy that we all adhere to” commented Toru Hasegawa, Managing Director at Nissan Middle East. “We apply these policies on a local scale as well as a global scale in order to ensure that our environmental goals are not only met, but also exceeded by a significant margin, as was recently demonstrated.”
Nissan is one of the few automotive companies worldwide with a clear and proven track record of environmental initiatives, recently being awarded the Excellent Sustainability Report award by initiating a programme for reducing CO2 emissions by implementing a series of environmentally friendly developments globally.
