Life S Work Carpet Recycling

Recycle carpeting to give plastic another life.

Life s work carpet recycling.

The industry produces about 12 billion square feet of carpet and rugs per year. Approximately five billion pounds of carpeting are replaced each year in the u s. Currently servicing local contractors post demolition. A whopping 91 percent is discarded in landfills 4 percent is incinerated and only about 5 percent is recycled.

Carpet tiles are tested sorted recycled and repurposed into reusable materials. You will reduce approximately 913 lbs of co 2 from being emitted into our air the equivalent of 950 miles driven by a car. But consumers can t recycle carpet with the same ease as bottles cans and newspapers. As most fms probably know carpet is available in two options.

Current recycling figures for carpet tiles across europe are still minimal. California has charged five people with defrauding the state s recycling program out of 80 3 million the largest alleged fraud scheme in the program s history officials said thursday. The state has since mandated a carpet recycling rate of 24 percent by. Meanwhile broadloom carpet is found in both commercial and residential settings.

Care offers information on 60 carpet recovery centers dotted around the united states that can pick up and haul away old carpeting to be recycled. But let s face it no matter how great the carpeting it s not going to last forever. In 2011 california became the first and so far the only one to implement a carpet producer responsibility bill ab 2398. Millions of pounds of carpet would instead be recycled and made into new carpet and a host of other products.

Carpet types and face fibers. Customers will receive a certificate of the carpet and the pounds of material diverted from the landfill after processing is complete. Today most carpet tile is sold in the commercial space and can be recycled back into new carpet tile with relative ease. Because carpeting often has a complicated structure made of several materials it can be difficult and expensive to recycle.

Of that 5 percent only about one fifth is recycled in a closed loop as envisioned by circular economy principles and turned back into carpet. You will eliminate the need for an estimated 48 gallons of petroleum oil. For that reason the 2002 mou established the carpet america recovery effort care to accommodate carpet recycling for individuals and businesses. 60 of post consumer carpet tiles end up in landfill with 37 being incinerated and only 3 recycled.