GREEN FLOORING
GREENSTREAM RECYCLING Social enterprise, South Wales- based CRUK member Greenstream Recycling, collaborates with housing associations by collecting unwanted carpet tiles from retail and corporate sources. These are sorted and offered for re-sale as an environmental and low-cost flooring option, saving money for social housing providers.
With rising demand and greater recognition for its services, Greenstream has expanded to five outlets across the UK including London and Llandudno Junction.
What did they say?
“Creating a second life for carpet tiles for low-income families and individuals in the UK provides many sectors, from the flooring industry to facilities management, with a set of unique quantified social outputs that other waste options can’t beat.”
Ellen Petts, Greenstream. ARIGHI BIANCHI
Cheshire-based furnishings company and CRUK member Arighi Bianchi succeeded in achieving one of their top sustainability objectives to recycle carpet offcuts through partnering with Anglo Recycling, a CRUK member. Anglo makes Crumbwool underlay from recycled fibres and rubber granules from recycled tyres; this underlay is promoted in store to consumers as ‘the best experience you will never see’.
What did they say?
“The service not only saves money on offcuts disposal costs, but more importantly, ensures that materials are re-used sustainably.” Neville Hinchliffe, Arighi Bianchi.
DESSO Desso is a high-profile member of Carpet Recycling UK and firmly committed to ‘closing the recycling loop’ by ensuring that carpet tiles are collected and recycled at the end of their serviceable lives. Their international Take Back programme was introduced five years ago to make it easier and more effective for its customers to recycle waste carpet tiles, and to reduce the burden on landfill, at no extra cost.
Under the Take Back scheme, all carpet tiles, with the exception of those containing PVC, can be collected and sent back to Desso’s recycling plant in the Netherlands, where the yarn is separated from the backing.
Take Back schemes play a crucial role in diverting increasing volumes of carpet waste from landfill, and giving this material a second life in a variety of imaginative applications. As we continue our hard work in diverting more of the 400,000tonnes of carpet waste that arises each year in the UK, you can play your part too.
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What did they say?
“Cradle to Cradle is at the heart of our business, and Take Back is another step forward in our commitment to protecting the environment. This scheme continues to grow year-on- year and is very well-supported by CRUK members, who can benefit from preferential rates on pallet prices.”
Keith Hall, Desso.
Both material streams can then be recycled; the yarn is returned to the yarn manufacturers for production of new yarn, and the bitumen backing is used in roofing and road surfacing products. Old carpet tiles in better condition can be cleaned and used again in flooring projects.
CRUK’s new target is 60% diversion from landfill by 2020 – so why not join in the success story?
www.carpetrecyclinguk.com
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