Carpet Recycling Firm Launched in San Francisco

San Francisco, CA, November 5, 2007— SF Carpet Recycling (SFCR), a new carpet recycling firm ,has been launched in San Francisco.

Ellen Raynor, founder of the SFCR—the first carpet recycling firm in the Bay Area—and an owner of a retail carpet store in the Lake Tahoe area says, “There is still a lot that can be done to help make the carpet industry a more sustainable business."

Raynor founded SFCR to provide the San Francisco Bay Area with post-consumer carpet and carpet pad recycling facilities at a cost that is below current carpet dumping fees.

San Francisco has a goal of 75 percent waste diversion by 2010. "We are currently at 69 percent waste diversion," said Jared Blumenfeld, director of San Francisco Department of the Environment. "Carpet recycling will play a key role in helping us meet our objective."

To ensure that it is reaching as many consumers as possible, SFCR has also launched a partnership with Shaw Industries, the largest carpet producer in the world, to help close the loop on Shaw’s cradle-to-cradle Anso products.

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