Circular Economy News — Week 40

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1. Audi Uses Recycled Plastic Compounds with 76% Production Waste to Cut CO2 Footprint in New Q6 e-tron 🚙

In collaboration with suppliers Kunststofftechnik Wiesmayer and RSH Polymere, Audi has started using recycled materials in visible parts for the new Audi Q6 e-tron. This project focuses on replacing virgin plastics with recycled compounds to decrease the overall CO2 emissions in production while maintaining high quality.

• The recycled compounds contain approximately 76% production waste from the plastics processing industry, also known as Post-Industrial Recycled (PIR) materials.

• Audi aims to increase the share of recycled materials in future vehicle generations, focusing on various materials, including plastics, steel, aluminum, and glass.

• The use of recycled plastics has a notable environmental impact. For example, the recycled compound used in the air ducting part for Audi has a Global Warming Potential (GWP) of 0.309 kg CO2-equivalent per kilogram of recycled plastic, compared to 1.68 kg CO2-equivalent for the comparable virgin PP MF 20 material.

• Audi, Wiesmayer, and RSH Polymere are also developing materials that include 20–40%…