Yesterday, Darlene, my little step-sister ran to me and told me that her science teacher told them that carpet is recyclable.
– No it can not be recycled, I said thoughtlessly . It might be possible to use it again, but doubtlessly impossible to be recycled.
As she was keeping on arguing against me and even said that those carpet recyclers had their own association in America. I decided to go on Google and checked it out. Well, my little friend was amazingly correct. An organisation of carpet recyclers exist in North America. Also there is also a construction waste recycler in my area that handle such items. I found out Recyconstruction and Recymobililer in my province : they provide recycling services for a variety of appliances and furniture, electronic equipment and construction waste. I talked to a recycling specialist, Robert, and he explained to me about all the things that are possible to recycle as of now.
- Carpet is taken for the plastic it contains, it could end up making new carpet or almost anything else made with plastic.
- Wood waste are moved to an electrical factory, they use it to make power. Their process is a smoke-free combustion that do not impact climate changes.
- Gypsum walls are passed through machines and shredded, pulp and paint are removed, and the remaining gypsum will either serve in agriculture or serve to build new panels.
And the same happens to each type of recyclable material. I found it incredibly amazing to understand that we are standing there. To people expecting to earn money out of their old table or paint, I would like to add that there is a fee to recycle those items.
- We used to work only in the business of electronic waste recycling a ago. However, since at some point we were exclusively recycling the items that we were accepting since it was not worth to sell it, we had to charge a fee to some material that cost more to recycle than to send to landfill. When we understood that people were interested in making a difference to the earth and were were OK with paying a small fee to cover our handling of the products, we thought it was time to add other recycling services that couldn’t be sustainable by their recyclable content to give an alternative choice to landfill.
- Fortunately, those services received an exceptional feedback, as it came to the market right in the middle of all green movements, residential or commercial. Industries and building managers are more than aware of the green advantages, reason why a lot of building managers are fighting to be LEED certified.
Tags: Construction waste, LEED, recycle, recycling