【Special Issues:Ecodesign】
Recycling Design Strategies for NISSAN Automobiles
Toru Tohata
Vehicle Production Engineering Division Recycling Promotion Department, General Manager
（6-17-1 Ginza, chuo-ku, Tokyo, 104-8023 Japan）

Abstract
Although the recycling rate for automobiles is presently over 80％, the best level so far for industrial products, car makers still have work together with the related recycling industries in order to achieve a recovery rate of over 95％ by the year 2015.
To boost the recycling rate, NISSAN is carrying out a 3R（Reduce, Reuse, Recycle） design program for new vehicles at the design stage, and developing its recycling technologies for End-of-Life-Vehicles in the recycling stage.
This paper introduces the present status for recycling of End-of-Life-Vehicles, and recycling design technologies at NISSAN, and future tasks to be addressed.

Key words: automobile, recycling