[schema type=”review” url=”www.diabloflooring.com” name=”Mohawk Carpet & Hardwood Retailer in Pleasanton, CA – Danville, CA – Walnut Creek, CA” description=”Mohawk is the largest recycler in the flooring industry, and we’re always working to do even more. Over 500 Mohawk products, everything from carpet to resilient flooring, contain recycled materials. We strive to maximize recycled or renewable content in all of our products—and we’re committed to helping our customers recycle as easily as possible when the time comes for new flooring. ” rev_name=”Mohawk Carpet” user_review=”4.9″ ]Mohawk Carpet & Hardwood Retailer in Pleasanton, CA – Danville, CA – Walnut Creek, CA
FROM PLASTIC BOTTLE TO CARPET
Mohawk has been operating the world’s largest integrated plastic bottle recycling facility in Summerville, Georgia, since 1999. The Summerville process, called Continuum, was expanded in 2014 and can now convert up to 6 billion plastic bottles—that’s right, billion—into carpet fiber each year.
How do we do it? Our state-of-the-art process sorts the plastic bottles, chops up the plastic into little chips which are vigorously cleaned, and melts them into polyester resin. The resin is spun into high quality polyester fiber that we use to make the beautiful carpet sold as part of the EverStrand™ collection.
Watch the EverStrand Bottle to Carpet Story
REDUCING LANDFILL WASTE
At Mohawk, we’re constantly looking for innovative ways toreduce, reuse, and recycle. Mohawk employees are involved in a corporate-wide effort to completely eliminate waste from our manufacturing facilities. Currently 14 of our facilities produce zero manufacturing waste—and we’ve got more on the way. Company-wide, we use more recycled content that has been diverted from landfills than virgin materials for our quality flooring products. That includes residential and commercial carpet, carpet tiles, and cushion to laminate and ceramic tile.
TURNING TIRES INTO WELCOME MATS
Mohawk began reusing hundreds of thousands of used rubber tires in 1999 and turning them into designer doormats. Since then the amount has steadily increased: Mohawk is now the leading tire recycler in the flooring industry, converting millions of pounds of tires into welcome mats each year.
