CARE Entrepreneur Meeting Continues To Grow

College Park, GA, Nov. 2, 2010 -- Carpet America Recovery Effort's (CARE) Seventh Annual Entrepreneur Meeting on October 27 hosted over 97 representatives from over 90 different organizations with a vested interest in the carpet recycling industry.

CARE said that judging by attendance at this year's meeting, interest in the carpet recycling industry continues to grow. For more than half of this year's attendees, this year's event was their first CARE meeting.

Dee Cassell, president of The Reclamation Depot, hosted a Carpet Recycling 101 information session, where she pointed out that carpet is one of the top ten most common items in the country going to landfills.

Attendees also addressed emerging opportunities in the carpet recycling industry, California's recently-enacted AB 2398 Carpet Stewardship legislation, Carpet as An Alternative Fuel (CAAF), the emerging Canadian Carpet Reclamation Effort (CCRE), and other topics

More than 80 entrepreneurs were in attendance, CARE said.