Armstrong Says Recycling Program Hits Milestone

Lancaster, PA, Jan. 20, 2017 -- Armstrong Flooring said it has reached a milestone by recycling more than 50 million pounds of post-consumer flooring materials.

Armstrong said its On&On Recycling Program has kept 25,000 tons of materials out of landfills, which has eliminated the generation of over 16,000 tons of greenhouse gases.

“The success of our On&On Recycling Program is an affirmation that traditional linear thinking, where we use a product and throw it away, is evolving to a circular approach where waste is valued as a resource. It’s about more than diverting materials from a landfill, it is about using resources wisely from product design to the end of a product’s life cycle,” says Amy Costello, sustainability manager, Armstrong Flooring.

Since 2009, the On&On Floor Recycling Program has offered commercial building owners and contractors an alternative to traditional disposal and a flexible, end-of-life recycling solution for flooring products. What began as a recycling program for VCT has expanded into a comprehensive program that includes Luxury Vinyl Tile and BioBased Tile.