Texas Carpet & Construction Recycling Facilitates 500K Diversion

Grapevine, TX, October 10, 2016—Texas Carpet and Construction Recycling (TCR), a subsidiary of national flooring product and services company Corporate Floors, recently helped pharmaceutical distributor and health care information technology company McKesson divert more than 500,000 pounds of carpet, vinyl composite tile and ceiling tile from the landfill during the recent remodel of the medical giant’s Irving, Texas office.

That amounts to more than the weight of the Statue of Liberty.

TCR partnered with general contractor Turner Construction and demolition company Precision Demolition on the project, which involved the removal and recycling of 250,000 square feet of materials.

Working under a compressed construction schedule, TCR scheduled and received more than 20 semitrailer loads of material in a short time span to help keep the material from stacking up on-site. Approximately two-thirds of the used carpet was sent to a waste-to-energy facility, saving precious natural resources, and the other one-third was recycled into new carpet backing. The ceiling tile was recycled into new ceiling tile, and the VCT was recycled into new VCT.

Approximately 3 billion pounds of used carpet is generated nationwide each year, most of which is deposited in landfills. When recycled, carpet content can be repurposed to create a variety of sustainable products, including construction materials, automotive parts and new carpet. TCR specializes in commercial carpet recycling, the most difficult of all carpet to divert from the landfill.