Why Ford is shredding cash…literally

"One man’s trash is another man’s treasure" - Senior technical lead Deborah Mielewski about a process to turn dandelion stems into rubber, tomato parts and old money into plastic and algae into foam

At Ford’s (F) material sustainability lab in Dearborn, Michigan you’ll find a hodgepodge of seemingly random junk—shredded money, dandelions, tomato…