Shaw Recycling 30 Tons of LaQuinta Hotel Carpet

Dalton, GA, Sept. 23, 2009--Shaw Hospitality Group and La Quinta Inns & Suites have partnered to keep more than 30 tons of carpet from landfills during five La Quinta hotels renovations in Texas, South Carolina, Tennessee and Florida.

Shaw Hospitality Group was specified earlier this year to re-carpet La Quinta guestrooms during a large-scale renovation project.

Instead of sending tons of the old hotel carpet to landfills, it will go to Shaw's Evergreen Nylon Recycling Center in Augusta, Ga.

The used carpet fiber will be broken down into caprolactum, the building block for carpet fiber, without degrading the quality or performance of the carpet fiber.

More than 30 tons of carpet has been reclaimed from La Quinta hotels in Nashville, Tenn., Beaumont, Texas, Columbia, S.C., and Lake Mary and Orlando, Fla. An additional reclamation project is planned for another Orlando hotel near the University of Central Florida.

Since the acquisition of Evergreen by Shaw in February 2007, more than 204 million pounds of carpet have been recycled through the facility, Shaw said.

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