Our aim is to achieve a sustainable mobile society through automobile recycling. Based on the three approaches of reducing the use of substances that will end up as waste (reduce), reusing what we can (reuse), and recycling materials whenever possible (recycle), we are striving to use limited precious resources effectively and recycle them efficiently in all stages of a vehicle's life cycle (from development to disposal). At the same time, we are developing technology for proactively adopting recycled materials to new vehicle parts.Through these efforts, we achieved a 95% recovery rate in fiscal 2006*, and we aim for the ultimate goal of a 100% recovery rate in our resource recycling.
Achieving a sustainable society requires the cooperative efforts of many people in the society. We emphasize the creation of partnerships that go beyond industry frameworks in advancing the effective use of resources, and hope to make the synergies thus formed a part of the grand cycle of recycling resources.

• *In Japan, the Automobile Recycling Law has set an equivalent of 95% end-of-life-vehicle(ELV) recovery rate as the target to be achieved by 2015.

The Global Nissan Recycling Way is an action guideline for the things we must always remember when considering and implementing recycling. The Recycle Vision expresses our ultimate goal of a society that achieves a 100% recovery rate *for end-of-life vehicles. To achieve this ultimate goal, there are issues that need to be resolved in all processes of a vehicle's life cycle. We divide this life cycle into four broad phases of development stage, production stage, Sales and service stage and end-of-life stage, and are working to identify and resolve key issues using the three Rs (reduce, reuse, and recycle).

• *Recovery rate: The percentage of the amount of waste that is recovered including heat recovery out of the total amount of waste generated.