Honda has started a first-of-its-kind Resource Circularity Centre near its Marysville and East Liberty plants in Ohio, aiming to keep retired tools, office electronics and vehicle service parts in use and out of landfill.
The site targets indirect goods — from torque wrenches and industrial robots to office chairs and aluminium wheels — by redeploying them within Honda, selling them externally, donating suitable items, or dismantling them for material recovery.
Matt Daniel, director of Procurement Sustainability at American Honda, said: “A circular economy isn’t just about recycling; it’s about how Honda can meet as many human needs as possible from a given resource, for as long as we can, until it can no longer serve a viable purpose.”
The centre’s priority is reuse first, with disassembly and recycling used where necessary to support a closed-loop stream that feeds recovered materials back into production.
Honda plans to extend the model to other North American sites, localising value recovery while cutting waste and costs.
The programme also explores community donations (for non-technical goods) and creative repurposing—for example, turning seat leather offcuts into luggage tags.
The centre complements Honda’s wider resource-circularity strategy, including “horizontal recycling” that recovers materials from end-of-life vehicles for use in new products.
Honda said this requires a circular value chain linking suppliers, operations and recycling partners to improve resource efficiency across the full value stream.
Wider environmental goals remain in place: Honda targets 100% battery-electric and fuel-cell vehicle sales globally by 2040, 100% carbon-free energy in operations, and 100% sustainable materials through high-efficiency recycling.
In North America, long-term virtual power purchase agreements for wind and solar already cover over 80% of the company’s electricity use.
Honda is also working with suppliers and dealers via its Green Excellence Academy and Environmental Leadership Program to cut emissions across the network.
