by AF0429 j3 — May 3, 2010—The Carpet America Recovery Effort (CARE) honored two leaders from the growing world of post-consumer carpet recycling at the organization’s eighth Annual Conference, held April 26-28 at the La Posada de Santa Fe in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The recycling group announced winners of the CARE Recycler of the Year and Person of the Year awards.
Shaw Industries was recognized as Recycler of the Year by CARE for its continued investment in both people and processes designed to increase the diversion of post-consumer carpet from landfills. CARE Executive Director, Georgina Sikorski was named CARE Person of the Year.
CARE is a joint industry-government effort to increase the amount of recycling and reuse of post-consumer carpet and reduce the amount of waste carpet going to landfills.
Shaw Industries was previously honored by CARE for its carpet recycling efforts in 2007, when it received the Recycler of the Year award following its purchase and launch of the Evergreen Nylon Recycling facility, which converts Nylon 6 fiber from post-consumer carpet back into the raw material to make new carpet fiber.
Since Shaw opened up the Evergreen plant in 2007, the company has recycled more than 220 million pounds of post-consumer Nylon 6 carpet and more than 36 million pounds of post-consumer carpet filler.
The CARE Person of the Year award was given to Georgina Sikorski, in recognition of her exemplary leadership as CARE’s Executive Director. Since joining CARE in 2009, Sikorski has guided the group through overwhelmingly difficult economic conditions, managing during that time to significantly increase both revenues and membership—CARE membership currently stands at 280, up from 50 just a year earlier.
For more information on Shaw’s sustainability and recycling efforts, visit Shaw Industries Web site.
