The #FarmToCar mission is simple: replace petroleum-based plastics with plant-based materials.https://t.co/ETS8NqtqxL
— Ford Drive Green (@FordDriveGreen) May 10, 2016
This might sound like the brainchild of an idealistic hippie whose hobbies include barefoot hiking and hugging trees, but making car parts out of plants and food-scraps might actually be a pragmatic manufacturing solution.
Since switching all of its North American vehicles from petroleum-based foam to soy-based seat cushion foam, Ford Motor Company saves over 20 million pounds of carbon dioxide per year -- the