More of your car could soon avoid the landfill, thanks to developing technologies to recycle various types of plastic used in cars. Up to 80 percent of the materials that make up cars is currently reused or recycled, but researchers hope to boost that number soon.

According to the web site Environmental Science and Technology Online, a program at the Argonne National Laboratory is testing new ways of sorting, separating, and extracting various forms of plastics so that they can be used to make new products.