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July 29, 2006

 

Honda Starts Beach Cleaning Project with Self-Developed Cleaner

Keywords: Manufacturing industry Reduce / Reuse / Recycle 

Honda Motor Co. of Japan has developed unique towable beach cleaners and has started the "Honda Beach Cleaning Project" to provide clean and safe beaches for the bare feet of the next generation. On the first day of the project, May 16, 2006, 21 forty-liter bags of trash were collected in four and a half hours at Katase Kaigan in Fujisawa, Kanagawa Prefecture.

Honda has developed two types of cleaner: the "Sand Rake" and the "Sand Screen." Both are towed by all-terrain vehicles from the United States. They are light, compact, easy to operate and maintain, and are friendly to beach's ecosystem. The two types of cleaner are used according to the type of sand, trash or intended purpose.

The "Sand Rake" hooks and collects plastics, wood chips and fishing lines, while the "Sand Screen" churns up the surface of the sand and separates trash from the sand to collect cigarette butts, plastic bottles, glass fragments, debris from fireworks and tar balls generated by accidents at sea.

The Honda Beach Cleaning Project aims to collect trash effectively to maintain beautiful and safe beaches through its "Beach Cleaning Caravan," consisting of about 15 current and retired employees. The company plans to clean about 20 beaches nationwide by the end of March 2007 in order to demonstrate its community-based corporate citizenship.

http://world.honda.com/news/2006/c060510BeachClean/

Posted: 2006/07/29 06:44:47 AM
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