Posts Tagged ‘Airbag Disposal’
Top Reasons to Recycle Recalled Airbags
Did You Know? For the last three decades, airbags have played a vital role in saving the lives of vehicle occupants. According to the NHTSA, from 1987 to 2017frontal airbags alone have saved 50,457 lives. The massive Takata airbag recall and subsequent smaller recalls created tens of millions of faulty airbags in the US that…
Read MoreCWE’s Historical Involvement in Airbag Disposal/Recycling
56 million defective airbags are currently under recall because they can explode when deployed. The airbags don’t perform correctly because their materials, particularly their metal components, are defective. Climates with high heat and humidity can make the problem even more dangerous. If these defective airbags explode upon deployment, they can cause serious injury and death.…
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