Conservative

We haven’t made our employees rinse and reuse coffee filters – yet – but we do try to reuse and conserve everything we can.

Some of the items we are able to reuse or recycle in our facilities include:

• core and yarn tubes
• metal and plastic yarn handling bins
• Resilient and VCT trim waste
• Remetered carpet yarn
• Downcycled yarn
• Test installation scrap

Below is more information on each of these programs.

Core and Yarn Tube Reuse and Recycling

Once our New Jersey location gets done with the 12-foot felt and paper handling core tubes, we ship them to our operation in Georgia, where they are cut in half and used as shipping cores for carpet. And the tubes on which yarn is shipped to us can be reused in our yarn twisting, metering and doubling operations. Once they are too worn to use, the tubes are crushed, bailed and recycled.

Metal and Plastic Yarn Handling Bins

Mannington has replaced the traditional cardboard boxes in which yarn lots are stored with metal wire and plastic bins. Stackable, flexible and more secure than cardboard boxes, they have saved a few squished toes along with resources.

Resilient and VCT Trim and Carpet Yarn Reuse

Obvious in concept, but trickier to actually do, we do the obvious. Little pieces of trim from our resilient and VCT operations get rounded up and put back into production, much like pieces of dough into a piecrust. Though not as tasty.

Carpet waste that cannot be reused in production is sold as poundage to stuff pillows, toys, and other soft textile products. Scrap is used for our Relay resilient product, and what we can’t use is either used by others or reclaimed and broken down into their original process chemistry for reuse or recycling.

Test Installation Scrap

We install a lot of carpet, some just for the fun of it – or at least for the edification of our installers. Whenever we take up one of these test floors, we reclaim the flooring for recycling just as we encourage you to do with your installation. Though we would hope you leave your Mannington flooring down for quite a bit longer than we do in our training facility.

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