New law to help develop recycled cheap carpets?

The development of cheap carpets made from recycled material may be advanced after a new law was passed in California.

Assembly Bill 2398 is perhaps the most significant item of environmental legislation that the state assembly could have passed this year, despite the failure of a law banning plastic grocery bags to make it to the statute book, Modbee.com claims.

It stated that the new rules could save 1.3 million tonnes of old carpet from ending up in landfills around California, while the cost to consumers - 5 cents (3p) per square yard of carpet - may help raise $5 million (£3.3 million) a year to help fund projects to develop recycling.

Such a move may help lead to the advancement of carpet recycling technology to produce higher quality new carpets made from old ones.

Modbee urged governor Arnold Scharzenegger to sign the bill, even though members of his Republican party voted against it.

Yesterday (September 6th) saw a possible advance in the recycling of carpets in the UK as the Harrogate Floor Show held a seminar on the subject, which had been advertised last month via Fibre2Fashion by Carpet Recycling UK.

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