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State Of Maine To Increase Carpet Recycling Efforts

The state has entered an agreement with the Carpet America Recovery Effort (CARE) to divert its used carpet from landfills and promote the use of products containing post-consumer content.

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Carpet Recovery Achievements Announced By CARE

The Carpet America Recovery Effort (CARE) recently released the figures on its diversion and recycling efforts for 2007. The group announced that the efforts achieved a double digit growth in recycling and diversion for the sixth year in a row. The CARE 2007 Annual Report included the following statistics:

* 296 million pounds of post-consumer carpet diverted, a 17% increase* 275.1 million pounds recycled, a 19% increase* CARE reached a milestone of a cumulative diversion of one billion pounds since its inception in 2002* 149 million pounds of carpet diverted, on average, per year since 2002* Carpet Recycling results

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