Pick up a three foot offcut of old carpet and the weight is wrong. It feels like a rolled towel and it lifts like a sandbag.

The installers roll the old carpet up and carry it out in strips. It weighs more than most people expect. Beneath the surface, three or four materials are fused so tightly together that almost no ...

A voluntary effort aimed at promoting the recycling, reusing and diverting used carpeting from landfills is recognizing the efforts of both people and companies in the effort. Carpet America Recovery ...

Ellen Raynor doesn't have a problem getting 100,000 pounds of used carpet in the door of her warehouse each week. It's getting it out the door that's the challenge. Raynor is owner of San Francisco ...

New topics that generated a buzz among the 100 delegates at the Carpet Recycling UK (CRUK) Conference held in Birmingham, U.K., in July included the conversion of synthetic carpet waste to oil and ...

Trials conducted by the British firm Axion Consulting show that polypropylene-based carpets can be recycled into a polymer pellet that can be used in a range of new applications. The project, ...

A significant part of carpet waste consists of petroleum-based polypropylene. As a non-recyclable product, disposing of it has previously meant incineration or landfill. However, a new solvent is now ...

A national nonprofit that runs state programs designed to promote recycling of used carpet is trying to prevent more of them from forming. The industry-run group Carpet America Recovery Effort kicked ...