Crossville Increased Recycling in 2014, Maintained Net User Status

Crossville, TN, April 22, 2015—Crossville Inc. has announced the company recycled 14,255,082 pounds of fired porcelain in 2014, bringing the company’s cumulative recycling total to nearly 53.5 million pounds since the 2009 launch of the Tile Take-Back program and subsequent Toto USA recycling partnership.

These recycling initiatives are based on the company’s proprietary process for recycling fired porcelain products, including post consumer materials.

All 53.5 million pounds of diverted material have been or will be recycled into feed stock to manufacture new tile, leading Crossville to maintain net waste consumption at its plants for a fourth consecutive year.

Through the aforementioned recycling initiatives, Crossville achieved the following in 2014: ground and reused 6,040,062 pounds of fired scrap produced at the company’s plants that would have previously gone to landfills; received and recycled 160,640 pounds of waste including scraps and post-consumer tile extracted from renovation projects (up from 87,411 pounds in 2013); and received and recycled 8,054,380 pounds of Toto’s scrap porcelain—an increase of 765,520 pounds from 2013.

Since the Tile Take-Back launch in 2009, the company’s cumulative recycling totals include: more than 24 million pounds of fired scrap produced at Crossville’s plants; over 460,000 pounds of scrap and post-consumer tile; just over 29 million pounds of scrap porcelain from Toto USA.