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When Life Gives You Agave, Make Bioplastic

Ford is drawing on an age-old principle, and one your parents always used to repeat to you, to find materials for building new vehicles. Waste not, want not.

As Jose Cuervo® has grown over the last 220 years from a small family business to the largest tequila distributor in the world, its agave farming operations have also grown from a few plants, to millions. In the past, the agave fibers…

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Ford Becomes First Automaker to Use Captured CO2 to Formulate Plastic and Foam Vehicle Components

For nearly 20 years, Ford Motor Company has sought ways to limit its environmental impact be exploring alternatives to traditional building materials. In North America, every Ford vehicle uses soy foam. Additionally, the automaker uses recycled tires in mirror gaskets, recycled denim and t-shirts for carpeting, and recycled plastic bottles make up a large part of the REPREVE seating fabric used in the 2016 F-150...

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