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Spotlight on waste management
Each issue, The Flooring Magazine and AMA Research bring you statistics and data relevant to the flooring sector. This month, we turn our attention to the waste management and recycling industry....
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Green evolution
Laurance Bird, director of Carpet Recycling UK, highlights the progress the organisation has made in diverting waste carpet from landfill since the industry body formed four years ago. Disposing of the...
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Birmingham NEC show carpets recycled into new building products
20,000 square metres of carpet used at the major recycling and waste management exhibition at Birmingham’s NEC in the UK have been successfully recycled into new engineered construction products....
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Taking the hard line to flooring sustainability
Sustainability has become one of the flooring industry’s most overused buzzwords. But what lies ahead for its future and how committed are we to preserving the concept? Jane Gardner, project manager at...
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Full steam ahead for carpet recycling
Entrepreneurial spirit has driven innovation throughout the development of the modern world and continues to influence and improve the way we live today. Even waste carpet materials are not immune to...
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Recofloor celebrates its vinyl flooring recycling champions
Recofloor, the UK’s vinyl flooring take-back scheme, will be recognising its vinyl flooring recycling champions at its annual awards event at Edgbaston Cricket Ground on March 13th. The event will be...
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Distributors sign up to Back to the Floor flooring recycling scheme
Distributors and contractors across the UK are signing up to Back to the Floor, a new collection and recycling scheme for installation off-cuts of Forbo flooring products. Managed by resource recovery...
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Environment Agency calls for better management of construction spills
A new construction industry report has been published by the Environment Agency in partnership with the British Safety Industry Federation (BSIF) on construction spills, guidance on how to prevent...
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What goes around comes around
Helen Rowberry, national sales manager for underlay at Carpenter, explains how new underlay recycling schemes like Carpenter’s are transforming the way we think about every part of flooring. A t a time...
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