ISSUE 61 SEPTEMBER 2023
THE VOICE OF THE NEW ZEALAND AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY
DRIVEN BY PASSION FOR 100 YEARS
55 tons of ocean plastic delivered to Victoria, Vancouver Island, Canada
From sea to dashboard KIA GLOBAL PARTNER, THE OCEAN CLEANUP, SETS A NEW RECORD FOR THE AMOUNT OF PLASTIC RECLAIMED FROM THE WORLD’S OCEANS. PART OF THE HAUL IS EXPECTED TO BE TURNED INTO CAR PARTS
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ia plans to use recycled plastic from a 55-ton haul recently reclaimed from the Pacific Ocean in its new EV models. The record-breaking amount of plastic reclaimed by Kia’s global partner, The
Ocean Cleanup, marks the next phase in a sevenyear global partnership agreed in April 2022. The Ocean Cleanup, the international non-profit project with the mission of ridding the oceans of
Kia remains committed to more than 20 per cent increase in plastic reuse by 2030 and achievement of carbon neutrality by 2045 plastic, landed its plastic catch at Victoria, Vancouver Island, Canada. The record catch was removed from the Pacific Ocean using The Ocean Cleanup’s System 002 extraction technology following a lengthy voyage through the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP). The GPGP is the world’s largest accumulation of floating waste and has an estimated surface area of 1.6 million square kilometres — equivalent to three times the size of France. Recycling of the captured plastic will begin shortly, and Kia will use a proportion of the material in future models.
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