Postscript
This was sent to me to share with you by GM, a regular reader and contributor, who said this happened to his VW…
“Until the mid-1980s, cars were made from metal, glass, and plastic, which was made from petroleum. Then, in Europe, regulations were passed making car manufacturers responsible for the vehicles they made ‘from the cradle to the grave’ – i.e., from the time it is made to the time it is retired from service and disassembled so that the materials can be easily recycled. In response, European manufacturers began to replace whatever materials they could with recyclable materials.
“It sounded like a great idea. Nobody objected to it. But there was one thing they didn’t count on: Those eco-friendly materials can be pretty tasty.”
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