ENVIRONMENT
Carpet Tile Recovery Service
Why recover used carpet tiles?
The answer is simple. Every year more than 500,000 tonnes of carpet ends its life in landfill. There is limited landfill space available, and this will be virtually depleted by 2020, so landfill tax is increasing and is set to rise to £100/tonne by 2014.
And of course landfilling waste is not an environmentally sustainable waste solution. When it comes to disposal, carpet tiles are bulky and virtually indestructible. Disposing of them in a skip may seem like an easy option, but taking positive action and keeping them out of landfill is not as difficult as you might imagine.
What will we do with the waste carpet tiles?
Re-use
We will grade and clean recovered carpet tiles ready for re-use on future projects. Re-using carpets can provide significant benefits when it comes to BREEAM, LEED and SKA accreditation. The process is carried out by a socially responsible enterprise that provides engagement and training opportunities for people who have been excluded from working in the wider community.
Recycling
Depending on the type of backing we will closed-loop recycle the carpet tiles, and incorporate the recyclate into new carpet backing. Alternatively we will separate and downcyle the main components, with the recycled material reprocessed or diverted to suitable applications such as road surfacing products.
Waste to Energy
We will shred recovered carpet tiles for use as a supplementary fuel for cement kilns.
How does it work?
Simply give us a callor email us. Based on the information you give us we will prepare a quotation for the recovery of the waste carpet tiles.
If you are happy with the quote we will arrange for bags (and pallets if needed) to be supplied to site.The cuts can be put into the bags, and the full tiles palletised, shrink wrapped and stored, undercoverand on solid ground.
At an agreed time we will collect the pallets and bags from site and divert the carpet tiles from landfill into one of our recovery nprogrammes.
