Recycling & Circularity
Honda provides free of charge services to end users of Honda vehicles for the return and compliant disposal of end-of-life vehicles, and high voltage batteries. To find out how to return your Honda vehicle, please contact the Honda recycling partner or your local Honda branch here.
Alternatively, you can directly contact our local partners for:
For decades, Honda has been promoting conventional Reduce, Reuse, Recycle (3R) activities as well as ensuring fully compliant disposal of end-of-life products. Since the inception of End-of-Life Vehicle legislation, Honda has been a proactive member of the IDIS consortium, providing dismantling partners with information supporting safe and environmentally sound depollution and dismantling of Honda vehicles.
As we transition to a new era of resource circulation, Honda is working to acquire capabilities beyond its current corporate activities. Developing a circular value chain by engaging new businesses and services as part of its shift to a recycling-oriented business.
Honda aims to achieve resource circulation through repurposing, refurbishing, and horizontal recycling, which maximizes the use of End-of-Life Vehicles (ELVs).
The insights and technologies gained from this effort are expected to support new businesses and products designed with a circular economy in mind, as well as the innovative technologies to achieve them.
For products currently under development, we are advancing the replacement of materials with those designed for circularity, integrating material types, and adapting material specifications and manufacturing methods to accommodate the use of recycled materials. Additionally, we are working on designs that facilitate easy disassembly of ELVs and are aiming to transform components made of multiple materials into structures that allow for easy separation into single materials, avoiding the inclusion of contaminants during the recycling process.
To see Honda’s initiatives for Automobiles, click here.
To see Honda’s initiatives for Motorcycles, click here.
In addition to incorporating these strategies into product design, we will also focus on expanding future horizontal recycling efforts. To achieve both environmental sustainability and economic viability, we are working with our partners to develop advanced recycling technologies, including those for dismantling, shredding, sorting, and reprocessing materials.
Through the maximization of inflow and outflow, we are striving to achieve a 50% usage rate of recycled and biomass materials in our next-generation models in the future.
You can find further information on resource use and circular economy here.