WHAT’S NEW?
BACK TO THE FLOOR Forbo’s Back to the Floor take back
scheme continues to grow with new drop-off sites recently added in Wales and Ireland, enabling even more flooring contractors to save on disposal costs by recycling their Forbo flooring installation off-cuts.
Although landfill tax increased again on April 1st 2015 from £80 to £82.60, prices for BTTF collections remain the same, so collecting off-cuts through the scheme is even more cost-effective.
Back to the Floor Scheme Co- ordinator, Michelle Brewer said: “Collectors report that they are making genuine savings through taking part in the scheme and the welcome addition of new drop-off sites means we can extend this valuable service to even more flooring professionals.”
The two new Welsh drop-off sites are MCD Wales, Bridgend and 3D Flooring Supplies, Swansea. Both accept cushion vinyl off-cuts from any manufacturer, but not felt/ polyester-backed flooring.
FIRESTONE COMPLETES REMOTE HOSTEL ROOF
IN THE LAKES The Lake District is almost as famous for its rain as it is for its scenic beauty and waterproofing specialist. Firestone, has helped to protect against the former while preserving the latter at the YHA’s Black Sail Youth Hostel in Ennerdale.
Only accessible on foot or by bicycle with just 16 beds, no electrical sockets and scant mobile phone signal, Black Sail is the most remote of the YHA’s hostels and amongst its most picturesque.
The re-roofing scheme not only needed to be robust enough to cope with the high levels of rainfall and the youth hostel’s exposed location, it also needed to be flexible enough to accommodate the penetrations on the substrate for the building’s solar panels, solar heating and solar
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tubes. The chosen system also had to be suitable for a green roof installation and Firestone’s UltraPly TPO waterproofing membrane met the bill for all these criteria.
The system was installed by Firestone licensed contractor, Goodwin Roofing Ltd, and the company had to overcome the challenges of the project’s remote location, two and a half miles from the nearest road, and its unpredictable micro-climate in the
shadow of one of the region’s most famous peaks, Great Gable.
Jeff Goodwin from Goodwin Roofing said: “A reinforced membrane of flexible Thermoplastic polyolefin (TPO) that contains neither plasticisers nor halogens, Firestone UltraPly TPO offers the excellent waterproofing performance required for such a demanding location, combined with low environmental impact and ease of installation.”
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In Ireland, customers can drop off Marmoleum off-cuts free of charge at Contract Flooring Supplies in Dublin.
Forbo off-cuts, as well as cushioned vinyl flooring off-cuts from most manufacturers, are collected across the UK and recycled back into new flooring products across the company’s portfolio.
The scheme offers both environmental and economic benefits for participants through diversion of waste material from landfill and preservation of raw material resources for use in new products.
Flooring contractors can benefit from savings on disposal costs versus sending their waste flooring material to landfill as Allan Kiely, Director of Kiely Carpets Ltd discovered. “Back to the Floor is very helpful for us; it cuts down on a lot of flooring waste to landfill while generating savings. Sending a tonne of off-cuts to landfill costs us £160, but recycling them is a third of this cost,” he explained.
All Back to the Floor scheme members are provided with colour-
coded polythene bags and bulk bags, which are collected directly from site or a contractor’s premises. Forbo has invested significantly in the recycling processes at three of its five UK sites. Tessera off-cuts are processed at the Bamber Bridge plant near Preston, while the Flotex and vinyl flooring goes back into flooring at the Ripley site.
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