Why recycle flooring? You hear many claims about recycling these days and it can be hard to separate fact from fiction, rumor from reality. "Recyclable" is often just a promise. Everyday, tonnes of carpet tile and LVT are discarded; most of it ending up in landfill and often nowhere near the end of its useful life. So why throw away that valuable resource?
Each year Interface diverts millions of Kg's of used, post-consumer carpet from landfills around the world. That's tonnes and tonnes of carbon saved from polluting the environment. As the New Zealand supplier for Interface, Inzide are proud to be supporting this product stewardship initiative called, ReEntry. Inzide is the only New Zealand Flooring supplier with MfE accreditation for recycling. So you have to ask, what are all the other suppliers doing with their “recyclable” products?
Take, make, waste, ends here... But only with your help.
David Coombes, MD of Flight Centre and Antonia Walmsley from Unispace acknowledged the value in this circular way of thinking when the time came to re-fit the 124 Vincent Street, Head Office in Auckland’s CBD. David had this to say; "In everything we do we look to minimise our impact on the environment. We were pleased to learn that recycling was an option for the carpet tile in the old office space and are very proud to have supported the ReEntry initiative from Interface." 1950m2 (11 tonnes) of Interface carpet tile was the existing floor covering to be uplifted and of course, replaced with Interface carpet for a further 15 years.