UK Vinyl Recycling Program Gets Underway

London, England, Oct. 2, 2009--A vinyl recycling program in the United Kingdom has been launched by a joint venture of Polyflor and Altro.

The program, called Recofloor, aims to increase the recycling of used vinyl flooring in the UK. Installation scrap will be recycled into new vinyl flooring material.

Old flooring will be used to make traffic control devices like cones and barrier bases.

Recofloor is concentrating on how the privately funded endeavor will handle the collection of the used flooring.  Recofloor hopes to create a sustainable system for collection which is both cost effective and efficient.  Currently waste is being taken from individuals all the way up to large construction projects, which often have massive amounts of wasted flooring.

Recofloor currently has 19 drop off points all over the UK that can be used by anyone with excess flooring to recycle.

Registered participants in the program will be given bulk bags that Recofloor will pick up after they are filled with recyclable vinyl waste.

Recent recycling laws implemented by the EU have called for a large reduction in the size of landfills in the United Kingdom.  Last year Polyflor alone put over seven hundred tons of recycled material back into its products.