Technical Paper
PURRC Flexible Foam Task Group: Recycling Automotive Seating - An Update
1994-03-01
940221
Today, automobiles exemplify how plastics can provide significant benefits to designers, manufacturers, and end-users. At the same time, vehicles today embody the environmental questions confronting the automotive manufacturer and the material supplier. Can our vehicles be recycled or recovered at the end of their service lives, and how can these products be effectively and efficiently reclaimed? The PolyUrethanes Recycle & Recovery Council (PURRC) was founded in September 1990, a unit of the Polyurethane Division of the Society of the Plastics Industry, Inc. to help answer these questions. PURRC's mission is to identify commercially viable technologies for recycling and/or recovering polyurethanes to promote feasible recovery technologies and to communicate that polyurethane products are recyclable and recoverable. This paper reviews the steps that the polyurethane industry is taking to provide the automotive industry with answers to the recycle/recovery issue.
