recycled carpet

Opportunities exist to gain value from carpet waste; much of it is readily recyclable. Nylon fiber, the most prominent type of carpet fiber, is a valuable polymer and can be used in many different applications.

Efforts are underway nationally to increase the options for recycling waste carpet, as well as using components to make new products using recycled content.

There is a number of options for managing waste carpet: direct reuse, refurbishment, recycling fiber into other plastic products, recycling carpet backing into new carpet backing, and "carpet-to-carpet recycling."

Manufacturing products from waste carpet

The carpet industry has devoted considerable time and effort into finding end uses for waste carpet. All of the major manufacturers of carpet and face fiber have committed many resources into developing processes for recycling post-consumer and post-industrial fiber. Many new and innovative products have been produced; here are a few examples:

Carpet backing

Carpet tiles

Remanufactured carpet tiles

Carpet cushion

Construction sheeting

Plastic lumber

"Geo Hay" for erosion control

Commercial nylon with recycled content

Automobile parts

Engineering resins

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