This greenmomster is updating her living room this summer – yippee! One of the items we’ll be updating is the rug – thanks to three dogs and three kids, it’s a little (ok, a lot) worn. Here’s one of my dogs showing off the hole one of the other dogs (as she explained it….) dug in the carpet under the couch. I thought about throwing the carpet out (since that’s not the only hole in the rug…..), but according to the May/June 2014 issue of Sierra magazine, rugs can and should be recycled. According to “Ask Mr. Green”, Americans annually dump 11 million tons of textiles (15% is carpet) into landfills. A better way of disposing of old rugs (if they can’t go to a local thrift shop or Goodwill) is recycling. Check out carpetrecovery.org to find a recycler near you. Your recycled carpet could find a new life as resins for plastics (such as the plastics used in autos), fiber, backing, and cushions for new carpets. Reduce, reuse, recycle!
Monday, June 23, 2014
Carpets, dogs, and recycling
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