CARE Executive Director Bob Peoples encourages the flooring industry to oppose the new legislation. 

Three companies in the flooring industry announce their team's recent expansion and growth. Here are some highlights.

The 2023 CARE Person of the Year is Wes Nelson of GreenWaste Carpet Recycling. CARE Recycler of the Year is Repurpose Earth (Gardena, CA).

This session will look at the tremendous progress in carpet recycling in California following the passage of AB 2398, the first carpet stewardship law in the country.

Carpet America Recovery Effort (CARE) will hold its 22nd Annual Conference for the national carpet recycling industry on May 7-8, 2024 at the Hilton Indianapolis Hotel and Suites in Indianapolis, Indiana.

A combination of factors resulted in the recycling rate declining to 33%, the first drop in over 7.5 years.

This increase is necessary to ensure the health of the carpet recycling industry in California, according to California Carpet Stewardship Program (CARE), which formally requested the increase on September 20, 2023.

Circular Polymers by Ascend, a recycler of post-consumer carpet, recently launched Cerene, a line of recycled polymers and materials made from the company’s proprietary carpet reclaiming technology. 

CARE announced winners of the Persons of the Year Awards for 2022 on April 26 in conjunction with the organization’s 21st Annual Conference in Orlando, Florida. The 2022 Persons of the Year are Joe Yarbrough and Wyatt Rollins.

Carpet America Recovery Effort (CARE) is pleased to announce that the California Carpet Stewardship Program has achieved a carpet recycling rate of 33 percent for 2022. This far exceeds the 27 percent goal set in the Program’s Five-Year Plan, and the California carpet recycling rate has more than tripled since 2015.