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Your new BMW could make you feel like a fish out of water - as in the future parts will be made from recycled fishing nets.In a first for the automotive industry, from 2025 models of their NEUE KLASSE cars will feature trim parts made of plastic whose raw material contains around 30 percent recycled nets and ropes. This raw material is proactively sourced at ports all around the world to ensure that it doesn’t end up being discarded in the sea.In an exclusive recycling process, waste material from the maritime industry is used to produce trim parts suitable for the exterior and interior of future vehicles. The resulting components have an approximately 25 percent lower carbon footprint than their counterparts made from conventionally manufactured plastics.The BMW Group is working with different approaches to use plastic waste from the maritime industry as a raw material for vehicle components in order to conserve valuable resources and reduce CO2 emissions. This form of recycling makes it possible to reduce the need for petroleum-based primary plastics and at the same time counteract ocean pollution.Recycled nylon waste forms the basis for a synthetic yarn from which the floor mats in the BMW iX and the new BMW X1, for example, are made. This material, known as ECONYL, is made from discarded fishing nets well as worn floor coverings and residual waste from plastics production.In a new initiative developed in cooperation with the Danish company PLASTIX, the BMW Group is taking the recycling of maritime plastic waste a step further. After separation, fishing nets and ropes undergo an innovative process that produces plastic granules. While recycled maritime plastic has so far only been used in the automotive industry in the form of fibres for new vehicle components, this recycled material is now also suitable for the injection moulding process for the first time. The raw material for the components manufactured in this way can consist of around 30 percent mari

Report

R&D for the public good: Ways to strengthen societal innovation in the United States

Darrell M. West

Monday, October 10, 2022

Governance Studies Staff

Two people walk past the closed side entrance of The International High School for Health Sciences Q236 as elementary schools are set to reopen on Dec.7, New York, NY, December 6, 2020. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that public pre-K and elementary schools can return to in-person learning on Dec. 7., while middle and high schools remain closed; Schools were closed on Nov. 18 when the city surpassed the 3% infection rate threshold set by the Mayor de Blasio. (Photo by Anthony Behar/Sipa USA)No Use UK. No Use Germany.

Brown Center Chalkboard

Disciplinary referrals, teachers, and the sources of racial disciplinary disproportionalities

Monday, January 30, 2023

An image of Elon Musk is seen next to Twitter logos

TechTank

The future of Twitter: Four scenarios

Darrell M. West

Tuesday, November 22, 2022

Suzanne Maloney

Vice President and Director - Foreign Policy

Parents helping child with schoolwork

Essay

Collaborating to transform and improve education systems: A playbook for family-school engagement

Rebecca Winthrop, Adam Barton, Mahsa Ershadi, and Lauren Ziegler

Thursday, September 30, 2021

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Essay

Whose learning counts? State actions to value skills from outside the classroom

Annelies Goger and Felix Laniyan

Thursday, October 20, 2022

A graduating student of the City College of New York wears a message on his cap during the College's commencement ceremony in the Harlem section of Manhattan, New York, U.S., June 3, 2016. REUTERS/Mike Segar

Brown Center Chalkboard

What are the labor market returns to MBAs from broad-access institutions?

Christopher T. Bennett

Wednesday, February 8, 2023

Mexican-Americans gather on Madison Avenue in New York on Sunday, September 18, 2022 for the annual Mexican Independence Day Parade. The parades that take place from the spring into the fall in New York celebrate the cultural diversity of the city. (ÂPhoto by Richard B. Levine)No Use Germany.

FixGov

Anti-immigrant campaign ads negatively impact Latinos’ mental health and make them feel unwelcome in the United States

Gabriel R. Sanchez and Carly Bennett

Tuesday, November 1, 2022

Two teams of hackers try to attack and defend the systems of a model town at Positive Hack Days 10 in 2021. (REUTERS/Alexander Marrow)

TechStream

Russia’s largest hacking conference reflects isolated cyber ecosystem

Thursday, January 12, 2023

About the Initiative

image of a black male warehouse worker carrying boxes.

Labor Policy & Unemployment

Historical unemployment for Black women and men in the United States: 1954-2021

Tiffany N. Ford

Monday, February 13, 2023

Pro-choice protestors march past police officers in front of Justice Brett Kavanaugh's house. (Photo by Allison Bailey/NurPhoto)

TechStream

How the tech sector can protect personal data post-Roe

Jordan Famularo and Richmond Wong

Thursday, October 27, 2022

Adam Looney

Nonresident Senior Fellow - Economic Studies

Executive Director, Marriner S. Eccles Institute, University of Utah

Photo: Aerial of the Pentagon, the Department of Defense headquarters in Arlington, Virginia, near Washington DC, with I-395 freeway on the left, and the Air Force Memorial up middle.

TechTank

Understanding artificial intelligence spending by the U.S. federal government

Gregory S. Dawson, Kevin C. Desouza, and James S. Denford

Thursday, September 22, 2022