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Norm Betts/Bloomberg via Getty Images(NEW YORK) What comes around goes around: Your discarded plastic water bottle may soon become part of your next car. Automakers are racing to make their vehicles more sustainable the industry's favorite buzzword by turning environmentally unfriendly materials into seat cushions, floors, door panels and dashboard trims. First it was reclaimed wood. Then "vegan" leather. Now, plastic waste from the ocean, rice hulls, flaxseeds and agave are transforming the manufacturing process. "Everyone is awakening to the problems of plastic and waste," Deborah Mielewski, a technical fellow of sustainability at Ford, told ABC News. Ford in particular has been championing the use of renewable materials in its vehicles. In 2008 it replaced the petroleum-based polyol foam in its Mustang sports car with seat cushions made from soy, an industry first. More recently Mielewski and her team started examining how to transform some of the 13 m ....
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