File this one in the making lemons out of lemonade category. Remember all of those booms used to help curb the flow of oil during this year’s massive Gulf Coast spill? There were 100 miles of them in all. Yeah, well, General Motors will be collecting them up to make parts for the latest version of the Chevy Volt.
The car maker plans to collect 100,000 pounds of booms in all, turning the plastic resin into air deflectors, which will go into the vehicle’s radiator. The deflectors will be made up entirely of recycled parts–a quarter will come from the booms, another quarter from recycled tires, and the rest from other assorted recycled parts.
Says GM’s manager of waste reduction, John Bradburn,
This was purely a matter of helping out. If sent to a landfill, these materials would have taken hundreds of years to begin to break down and we didn’t want to see the spill further impact the environment. We knew we could identify a beneficial reuse of this material given our experience.
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