For Georgia company, carpet is black gold
By Editorial Staff, Resource Recycling
Clean Energy Conversions has recently raised $10 million to build a facility at the Dalton-Whitfield Solid Waste Authority in northern Georgia that will produce crude oil from plastics extracted from waste carpet, reports the Chattanooga Times Free Press.
The authority has 400,000 tons of carpet waste it has been storing since the 1990s anticipating that there would be some sort of value in the material, according to the paper. The company hopes to open the facility in 2013 and will use the stored carpet for its operations along with other plastics, specifically Nos. 4 through 7.
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I had no idea that you can recycle carpets and transform them into oil. This is proof that people can be creative when it comes to recycling and can also monetize it and create a successful business. Hope you don't mind if I send a link to your article to a few of my friends from junk removal Framingham. They will probably be very happy to read about this. I know I'm happy.
Converting Used Carpet to Crude Oil
In this day and age, where sustainability and lifecycle management are a key focus, the prospect of keeping tons and tons of carpet out of landfills is groundbreaking.
As a carpet recycling company, CLEAR shares the hope that this provides a permanent solution for this nagging problem. Carpet is in the top 10 items that end up in landfills. Diverting it for re-use further decreases the reliance to drill for or import more crude.