New Ford Focus uses blue jeans and soy beans

Sitting on soy beans surrounded by blue jeans? Probably not your everyday driving experience. But Ford have incorporated both into their new Focus, just released in Australia.

This green machine uses post-industrial cotton from blue jeans in its interior padding and soy-based polyurethane foam in seat cushions, seatbacks and headliners. But it also has many other eco-friendly features…

Did you know that…?

1. Post-consumer plastics, like old drink bottles, are recycled into things like underbody shields, battery trays, carpet and insulation.

2. Post-industrial yarns are made into seat fabrics.

3. Wheat straw reinforced plastic is used for vehicle storage bins and interior door panels.

4. Recycled and renewable woods are used for interior trims.

5. Dismantled and reconditioned car parts are sold on the used car parts market.

6. Fuel efficiency is improved by Ford through measures such as reducing the weight of its vehicles over the next decade.

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