Carpet goes green
Carpet is edging closer and closer to becoming an environmentally friendly flooring option as one company claim to have produced the most sustainable carpet tiles on the market.
The new sustainable flooring is made entirely from recycled yarn with the raw material coming from several sources, including the company’s own recycled products.
InterfaceFLOR is a world leader in innovative flooring solutions and with the entire flooring industry working to produce more eco-friendly floors they have set to work with carpet.
Carpets are notoriously one of the less ‘green’ products on the market because of how difficult they are to recycle.
However there are several groups working to change this with new and more advanced solutions being tested in the hope that they will lead to more environmentally friendly flooring choice.
The idea that old carpet should be able to be recycled in to new carpet isn’t original but putting a successful system in place has taken more time and effort than many assumed it would.
The new product, Biosfera I, has been independently verified to assess its green credentials and InterfaceFLOR is now the only carpet manufacturer with a genuine like-for-like recycling system in place.
This means that carpet tiles can be reclaimed by the company and the products will be processed through the system and used to produce brand new recycled carpet tiles.
