An innovative scheme to increase the recycling of vinyl flooring around the United Kingdom has been launched by a joint venture of Polyflor and Altro. The take-back scheme, which they are calling Recofloor, aims to increase the recycling of used vinyl flooring in the United Kingdom. In the scheme flooring, which was leftover from the installation process or cut off to fit a space, will be recycled into new vinyl flooring material. In addition, flooring which was pulled up, or is in too poor condition to be reused as flooring, will be used to make traffic control devices like cones and barrier bases.
Now that a scheme for recycling has been devised, 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 nineteen drop off points all over the United Kingdom which can be used by anyone with excess flooring to recycle. Registered participants in Recofloor’s scheme will be given bulk bags which Recofloor will pick up after they are filled with recyclable vinyl waste. Recofloor hopes to add more drop off sites around the United Kingdom and also hopes it can encourage businesses to join by adding drop off sites at store locations.
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 their products.
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