Texas recycling company diverts more than 500,000 pounds of carpet

Texas Carpet and Construction Recycling (TCR), Grapevine, Texas, a subsidiary of Corporate Floors, Grapevine, Texas, diverted more than 500,000 pounds of carpet, vinyl composite tile and ceiling tile from landfill during a recent remodel, a report by Floor Focus says.

The company partnered with Turner Construction, headquartered in New York City, and Precision Demolition, Lewisville, Texas, on the remodeling of pharmaceutical distributor and health care information technology company McKesson’s offices in The Woodlands, Texas, the report says. The project involved the removal and recycling of 250,000 square feet of materials.

TCR scheduled and received more than 20 semitrailer loads of materials—two-thirds of the material was sent to a waste-to-energy facility and the other one-third was recycled into new carpet backing. The ceiling tile and vinyl composition tile (VCT) was recycled into new materials as well.