CARE Report Reveals Uncertainties

The Carpet America Recovery Effort (CARE), created last year by members of the carpet industry, government entities, and nonprofit organizations, has released its first annual report on progress toward the goal of diverting 40% of America’s post-consumer carpet from landfills by 2012. As a first step in the ten-year plan, CARE had hoped to divert 178 million pounds (81 million kg) of carpet in 2002—3.8% of total discards. According to data they’ve been able to collect, CARE fell disappointingly short of its goal, reporting merely 1.2% diverted. What is most striking, however, is how little the organization really knows about the carpet waste stream and its recycling rates.

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