Sustainability is
increasingly appealing to businesses and homeowners alike and thanks to a
variety of incentives like LEED and NSF, the demand for post-consumer carpet
(PCC) is growing every year. However, it takes open communication between
manufacturers, retailers, collectors, entrepreneurs and consumers to make the
reuse and recycle of PCC a reality and since CARE stepped up to the plate
eleven years ago, it has made great strides in advancing its mission to promote
market-based solutions that increase landfill diversion and recycling of PCC
and encourage design for recyclability.
In little over a
decade CARE has grown to 452 members across the nation and facilitated the
diversion of roughly 2.6 billion pounds of post-consumer carpet from landfills
in the U.S., extending its reach every year. Considering carpet is estimated to
take 20,000 years to breakdown, this is a huge success!
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