CARE Distributed $881,000 in Grants in 2024
Dalton, GA, February 19, 2025-In 2024, the CARE California Carpet Stewardship Program managed 15 grants totaling $881,000 awarded to 14 entities, an investment that builds on the state’s carpet recycling success.
Important advances were made in expanding convenient collection across the state, as well as tackling fiber identification and difficult-to-recycle post-consumer carpet (PCC) components.
The Program funded and oversaw:
- Two Capital Improvement Grants to California entities, totaling $276,000, that are projected to expand recycled output by four million pounds annually and grow and improve collections by 600,000 pounds per year.
- Approximately $100,000 in two Product Testing Grants to find higher and better uses for PCC backing (PC4) as well as strategies and parts for repairing carpet fiber identification technology. Read the case study on the CARE website.
- Two new Innovation & Design Grants, totaling $200,000, for projects at University of California Davis and Arizona State University to explore more sustainable applications for PET fiber and PC4 backing material.
- Seven California-based Micro Grant projects totaling $105,000 to support an additional annual 654,000 pounds in collections via private pickup service and three new public drop-off sites. Two new sites are located in rural counties and fulfill statewide convenient collection goals.
Since 2016, CARE has paid out more than $10,300,000 in grants.