Aluminum panels are marked by grade and the car is designed for disassembly; at the end of its life, technicians can easily sort the materials for recycling by specific type, rather than melting different aluminum grades together and compromising the material. The company is doing away with the standard practice of bonding unlike materials in the interior. When you glue a veneer to a plastic, then glue metal trim around the edges of it, you’ve rendered all 3 materials unrecoverable. In contrast, Missoni and his team have designed all of the soft-touch interior elements to be monomaterial, made of “a highly recyclable thermoplastic.” These interior elements “can be recycled as one material, and not only that, they can be recycled over and over again.”

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