Recofloor: 15 Years of Vinyl Flooring Recycling
Recofloor, the UK’s leading vinyl take-back scheme, celebrated 15 years of recycling waste vinyl flooring in 2024.
As reported, an estimated 7,250 tons of waste vinyl flooring have been collected and recycled through Recofloor since it was founded by the flooring manufacturers Altro and Polyflor in 2009. “To date, the sustainable collection service for commercial waste vinyl flooring has produced 8,504 tons of carbon savings – equivalent to taking 2,220 cars off the road for a year.” It would also equate to 2,416,667 square meters of vinyl flooring having been recycled back into new flooring as well as traffic management products. The carbon savings estimate is based on displacing concrete in traffic management products, the main application for recycled flooring.
(Published in GLOBAL RECYCLING Magazine 3/2024, Page 10, Photo: Recofloor)
