Sustainability / Recover
Recover , A new life for floors TOWARDS CIRCULARITY
Our partners in Recover are growing
We have several B2B partners working to take back sheet vinyl flooring, and the interest is growing globally. Recent partners who are main contributors to our programme are Trirecycle (UK), Jordan (DE), JMT Floorcoverings (NL), Cotap 5 (NL), Rubik (DE) and V-Podlahy (CZ), as well as many French customers and distributors who collect post-installation sheet vinyl flooring. Together, we are working on joint goals towards a more circular flooring industry.
CASE STUDIES Collecting and recycling our sheet vinyl flooring.
We try to reduce our environmental impact not only by producing efficiently, but also by the way we use materials. Today, production waste from sheet vinyl flooring and post-installation materials returned through our Recover Take Back Program are being recycled or repurposed for use in the backing of LVT products. This way, we work towards our goal of a more circular product. How we recover sheet vinyl flooring
Introducing our partners to the recycling process Last year, JMT Floorcoverings recovered 6 tonnes of sheet vinyl flooring. We visited a recycling centre with them, observing how 4 tonnes was recycled into granules intended for specific, non-flooring applications (downcycling). Another 1.2 tonnes was used for an innovative pilot, recycling textile-backed vinyl into granules that can be reused as a raw material for our LVT flooring.
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1. COLLECTING After installation or at end-of-life, old floors and leftover rolls are collected into bags or on pallets. The customer contacts us to arrange collection.
4. RECYCLING At recycling centres, we convert flooring to raw materials for LVT or other applications, such as street furniture.
For King Charles’ Coronation in Westminster Abbey, London, we supplied 726 m 2 of Ultimate Wood & Stone and Bingo sheet vinyl flooring, totalling 1.2 tonnes. After the event, we recovered and fully recycled the flooring, demonstrating our commitment to sustainability.
2. TRANSPORT Depending on what we’ve collected, we have several options to bring the waste back: to our recycling centres, send it to one of our partners or send it back to base. 3. SORTING Before the collected materials are ready for recycling, they need to be sorted and cleaned prior to being shredded.
5. NEW FLOORING The recycled material is used as raw material for new LVT flooring.
6. OTHER APPLICATIONS If returned material can’t be recycled into new flooring, because of contamination or not being REACH compliant, we then look for other applications.
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