A brand new on-line useful resource goals to facilitate the protected disposal of carpets and different textile flooring waste.
Carpet Recycling UK’s new database – mentioned to be the primary of its form – offers customers with info on native authority Family Waste Recycling Centres (HWRCs) throughout the nation which settle for carpet and different textile flooring waste.
The www.recyclemycarpet.co.uk web site operates with a user-friendly search operate, placing customers in contact with disposal choices of their space. It has complete protection of all UK native authorities, with direct hyperlinks to council web sites for up-to-date disposal pointers. The data on HWRCs and programmes is restricted to every postcode
“This devoted web site permits the general public to seek out their native council-operated waste and recycling centre the place they’ll safely get rid of their carpet and textile flooring waste,” mentioned Cathie Clarke, CEO of Carpet Recycling UK. “It will assist to offer a handy and freed from cost resolution to a cumbersome waste stream, which might in any other case have been a expensive and problematic situation.
“This can even scale back the quantity of waste being dealt with by fitters, or being returned to the retailers, and assist to enhance recycling charges for these supplies.”
CRUK says the launch of its database comes at a ‘essential time’ because the UK authorities plans to standardise recycling collections throughout native authorities by March 2026. The brand new useful resource will assist customers to navigate the prevailing, assorted panorama of disposal choices and put together for forthcoming adjustments.
“By offering easy accessibility to native info, we intention to develop wider consciousness and create higher accessibility for the disposal of carpet and textile flooring waste throughout the nation,” added Cathie.
CRUK says the web site not solely aids customers but in addition helps the carpet trade’s transfer in the direction of better sustainability, complementing different welcome developments such because the opening of the UK’s first carpet recycling facility, by Innovate Recycle in Northampton.
For extra info, e mail: data@carpetrecyclinguk.com or go to www.carpetrecyclinguk.com.
