Carpet Recycling UK Names Sustainability Award Winners

Stockport, UK, July 8, 2016—Carpet Recycling UK celebrated the achievements of its members at its eighth annual conference and awards event at the Leicester City Football Club, according to Recycling Today.

Individuals and organizations were acknowledged for their contributions to greater sustainability in the sector.

The following received awards:

* Recycling Champion, Graham Kempton of Designer Contracts Ltd., Derbyshire, for his reorganizing delivery routes and increasing the capacity to collect more waste, to aid carpet recycling;

* Take Back Partner of the Year, Designer Contracts Ltd.; 

* Reuse Member of the Year, Carpet Tile Recycling, Nottingham, for its development of new outlets for nonreusable tiles;

* Recycler of the Year, Desso UK, Waalwijk, the Netherlands, for designing more easily recycled products;

* Best Newcomer, Made by U Ltd., Doncaster, for diverting carpet waste in Yorkshire from landfill to the highest possible value outlets; 

* The 2016 Outstanding Achievement, Anglo Recycling Technology Ltd., Rochdale, for its efforts to achieve high quality carpet fibers for reuse in textiles, including a closed-loop system that reprocesses retailers’ carpet off-cuts back into underlay; and

Longstanding Support, Cormar Carpets, Greenmount.