Sustainable Hospitality Carpet!

Dalton Hospitality Carpet Mills Strives to be Sustainable

Carpet in the hospitality industry can be found everywhere. Guestrooms, lobbies, convention centers, almost anywhere where people walk, you’ll find carpet. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, in the US alone, over 4 billion pounds of this carpet find their way into our landfills and solid-waste disposal systems every year.

Any way you spin it, that’s a lot of carpet going into the landfill. Hospitality carpet manufacturers, including Dalton Hospitality Carpet Mills, are attempting to make an impact on this waste. There are several initiatives that they are employing.

One of the most aggressive systems in place to reclaim some of this carpet waste is a system where the discarded nylon carpet is depolymerized and returned to the manufacturing process. These recycled fibers are almost virgin nylon again. Basically, the reclaimed nylon becomes carpet fibers again with no degradation. A consumer or a lab would be hard pressed to tell the difference between the reclaimed nylon and freshly manufactured nylon.

Another means is combining post-industrial recycled content with virgin content. This type of system can be employed for both the carpet fibers and the backing, making a more eco-friendly product that is superior in all aspects of quality.

Not only are these new manufacturing techniques eco-friendly and more sustainable, but being “green” doesn’t cost any extra in the carpet industry as it might with other products.