Honda has begun operations of its new Resource Circularity Center, a center designed to give new life to vehicle service parts, retired equipment, and office electronics that it says would otherwise end up in landfills. Located near the Marysville and East Liberty Auto Plants in Ohio, the center focuses on recycling and repurposing indirect goods 鈥� tools, equipment, and other items used in operations, including those that support vehicle production, such as torque wrenches and industrial robots, to office chairs and vehicle service replacement parts like aluminum wheels.
鈥淎 circular economy isn鈥檛 just about recycling; it鈥檚 about how Honda can meet as many human needs as possible from a given resource, for as long as we can, until it can no longer serve a viable purpose,鈥� said Matt Daniel, American Honda Motor Co. procurement sustainability director. 鈥淭he Honda Resource Circularity Center reimagines the current linear model of buying, producing and disposing into a circular value model that recaptures value and reduces waste at every turn.鈥�
Honda plans to reuse the indirect goods at its facilities, sell them, donate them, or disassemble them for the recovery of raw materials, according to the release. End-of-life vehicle service parts are also disassembled and recycled into Honda鈥檚 raw material stream to support a closed-loop system.