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Cradle-to-Cradle Carpet Recycling

Full Cycle Reclamation

We are proud to partner with manufacturers that offer cradle-to-cradle carpet recycling programs and are continually striving to do what's right for the environment.

Here's how a cradle-to-cradle program works:

  • Raw materials are used to make a carpet product.
  • Carpet product is purchased and used.
  • After it has served its useful life, that carpet product gets broken down into raw materials again and used to make the very same kind of carpet products.

So raw materials make commercial carpet, which gets broken down into raw material, which gets used to make carpet. Again and again. Forever.

This does two things:

  • It drastically reduces the amount of used carpet material going to landfills.
  • Since that carpet material is now returned to the manufacturing process, it drastically reduces the amount of raw materials used to manufacture carpet. Instead of garbage, old carpet products become chemical nutrients which nourish the production cycle endlessly.

For example Shaw Contract Group's Eco Solution Q fiber and EcoWorx backing are among the first cradle-to-cradle carpet products in the world.

In fact, Shaw offers an environmental guarantee stating that it will pick up any EcoWorx-backed material, free of charge, and recycle it into more EcoWorx.

It almost seems too good to be true. But it's happening right now.

Contact us to learn more about our cradle-to-cradle carpet recycling programs or other options that may be open to you, such as recycling carpet to fuel.

Sands. It's the total package. And a winning formula.