Ford & McDonalds Collaborate for Sustainable Headlights

Sustainable Headlights. 

Ford is using coffee chaff, the skin from a coffee bean that comes off during the roasting process, to make plastic headlamps of some cars. McDonalds connected Ford to their sustainable coffee bean suppliers.

Prior Headlight Production.

Ford used plastic and talc to make its headlamp housing

How’s this More Sustainable? 

The coffee headlights are lighter. Coffee chaff is widely available and doesn’t use talc which is not renewable and thereby not a sustainable source.

Ford’s Other Sustainability Efforts. 

The company has been working to incorporate more organic materials for a decade. They currently utilize soy, waste from wheat, coconut, tomato and other plants in its cars.

CNN Business | Ford and McDonald’s are turning coffee waste into car parts