A few days ago, Michelle, my little niece ran to me and showed me that her science teacher showed them that carpet is recyclable.

– No it can not be recycled, was my quick answer. It might be possible to use it again, but surely not possible to recycle it.

As she didn’t stop arguing against me and even said that those carpet recyclers had their own organization in the U.S.. So I went on Google and searched it out. Well, my little friend was incredibly right. There is really an organisation of carpet recyclers in America. As I was keeping on searching, I found that there is also a construction waste recycler in my area that handle such items. I found about Recyconstruction and Recymobililer in my area : they handle the recycling of all  furniture, appliances, electronic material and construction waste. I had a conversation with a recycling specialist, Andre, and he explained to me all the material that are recyclable as of now.

- Carpet is recycled for its plastic content, it could end up making brand new carpet or almost anything else made of plastic.
- Wood waste are carried to an electrical factory, they use wood to generate power. It is a smoke-less fermentation process that do no impact on global warming.
- Drywall are going through machinery and transformed into powder, paper as well as paint are taken off, and the remaining gypsum will either serve as fertilizer or be used to build new gypsum walls.

And the same happens for all variety of material. It is incredibly great to realize that we are standing there. To those expecting to earn money by selling their old table or drywall, I would like to add that there are fees to recycle those items.

- We used to work exclusively in the area of electronic waste recycling a few years ago. However, since at some point we were exclusively recycling the items that we were accepting because it was not worth to sell it,  we had to charge a recycling fee to some items that were more expensive to us to properly recycle than to send to landfill. Since we understood that people want to make a difference for the planet and were agreeing to pay a small fee to help with the handling of the products, we decided to add other recycling services that wouldn’t be sustainable by themselves to provide an alternative choice to landfill.

- Fortunately, the service received a tremendous response, as it came to the market right in the middle of all green movements, residential or commercial. Businesses and building owners are getting more aware of the green advantages, reason why a lot of building owners are putting so much efforts to become LEED certified.

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