Crossville Announces 2015 Recycling Totals

Crossville, TN, April 18, 2016—Crossville Inc. recycled 16,939,634 pounds of fired porcelain in 2015, bringing the company’s cumulative recycling total to just over 70 million pounds since the 2009 launch of the Tile Take-Back program and subsequent TOTO USA recycling partnership.

Here’s the break-out of Crossville’s total of 16,939,634 pounds of fired porcelain recycled in 2015: 8,808,043 pounds fired scrap product at the company’s plant; 8,060,180 pounds of TOTO’s scrap porcelain; and 71,411 pounds of post-consumer waste from the Tile Take-Back program. Additionally in 2015, Crossville removed 1,738,973 pounds of filtrate solids from dirty water and recycled back into tile production.