by Rebecca Walker — October 5, 2009—A vinyl recycling program in the United Kingdom has been launched by a joint venture of Polyflor and Altro, two of the country’s leading flooring manufacturers.
The program, called Recofloor, aims to increase the recycling of used vinyl flooring in the U.K. Installation scrap will be recycled into new vinyl flooring material. Old flooring will be used to make traffic control devices like cones and barrier bases.
Recofloor, managed by Axion Consulting, is concentrating on how the privately funded endeavor will handle the collection of the used flooring. Recofloor hopes to create a sustainable system for collection that is both cost effective and efficient. Currently, waste is being taken from individuals all the way up to large construction projects, which often have massive amounts of wasted flooring.
Recofloor currently has 19 drop off points all over the U.K. that can be used by anyone with excess flooring to recycle. Registered participants in the program will be given bulk bags that Recofloor will pick up after they are filled with recyclable vinyl waste.
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