California’s Carpet Recycling Program Sees Improved Rates Carpet recycling reportedly saw significant progress in 2020 in California, according to Carpet America Recovery Effort’s (CARE’s) recently released California Carpet Stew- ardship Program 2020 Annual Report. The California Program achieved an all-time program high recycling rate of 23.2 percent in Q4 2020, with an overall annual recycling rate of 21 percent in 2020.While it did not meet the target 24 percent goal, the recycling rate for this fossil-fuel-based material is up 107 percent in the past five years. Sixty-Eight percent of the carpet collected in California was recycled in 2020, the report stated.This percentage has grown dramatically over the life of the program from just 28 percent 9 years ago, thanks to expanded processing capaci- ty, growing markets for post-consumer carpet materials and technological advances. Major market development efforts, particularly in the cre- ation of a market for carpet backing material, also known as PC4, has led to the 68 percent yield rate. According to the California Carpet Stewardship Program’s 2020 Annual Report: • 67 million pounds of post-consumer carpet was divert- ed from California landfills; • 53 million pounds of recycled output was produced; • More than 72 million tons of greenhouse gas emissions (MTC02E) was saved; and • $16.9 million in subsidies supported collectors, proces- sors and manufacturers of recycled carpet material. Nearly $1.1 million in grant funding was paid in 2020. Since 2017, CARE has paid more than $8 million to grow carpet recycling via grants for capital improvement, prod- uct testing and expansion of collection. In addition, CARE’s emergency COVID-19 Action Plan has provided support to the industry as it faces the economic and operational challenges of 2020.According to the orga- nization, the Action Plan included special payouts in 2020 totaling $1.6 million to collectors/sorters, processors and manufacturers. Valicor Acquires EnviroSolids Valicor Environmental Services, a Monroe, Ohio-based provider of nonhazardous wastewater treatment services, has acquired EnviroSolids LLC and its affiliated companies. EnviroSolids is a provider of nonhazardous waste and recy- cling services. According to Valicor, the addition supplements the com- pany’s network of wastewater processing facilities in the Midwest. Located in Dearborn, Michigan, EnviroSolids operates a centralized waste treatment plant (CWT) and Part 115 li- censed solid waste processing plant (SWP) within a 10-acre campus. EnviroSolids has specialized capabilities in multi- ple disposal methods, including waste-to-energy, wastewa- ter treatment, solidification and used oil recycling.
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