Carpet And Underlay Recycling

Anglo recycling technology diverts textiles away from landfill.

Carpet and underlay recycling.

If your unwanted carpet is no longer usable you will need to take it to the resource management centre michelle or hume or ask your carpet fitter to dispose of it on your behalf when they are installing new carpet. Recycling wool rich carpet. Up to 80 million lbs of used carpet and underlay are sent to metro vancouver s landfills each year. The waste carpet fibres are pulled and blended with other fibres to create suitable materials.

Recycling wool rich carpet underlay and insulation. In addition we run our own recycling program recycle by dunlop encouraging retailers to return their used underlay to us. Dunlop underlay is manufactured from 90 recycled materials and is 100 recyclable. Fibers from wool rich carpets are great for insulation they are used in underlay and heat and sound insulation after recycled.

Here are some recycling procedures depending on their materials. Vancouver s only carpet and underlay recycling service. Dunlop underlay is committed to reducing our impact on the environment by helping to reduce landfill. The underlay in the room in question is a very good make apparently but judging by the carpet has been there for at least 20 years.

Dunlop carpet underlay meets the requirements set by the green building council of australia s green star program achieving maximum rating points for building interiors. Carpet and underlay that are in good condition can be reused. If the above options don t work for you then taking it to the local council recycling centre would be best ask them if there is a recycling container for carpet waste. Confronting carpet industry issues recowool is made from recycling carpet off cuts.

Carpet is not the easiest thing to recycle. The process is being used both for fitting. This new raw material was going to landfill but anglo recycling developed a machine that recycles this into carpet underlay. A carpet underlay made entirely from 100 polypropylene virgin.

Flame retardant the recowool fibre blend does not melt easily and exceeds the british standard for underlay. The old carpet is clearly worn along certain paths and we re guessing even though it s harder to see it the underlay is similarly worn so we ve listened to the advice and are replacing it. Our products have an array of technical attributes providing solutions that insulate protect and reduce noise using a low carbon footprint process. What s more we manage our own recycling program recycle by dunlop encouraging retailers to return their used underlay to us.