Sacramento— Scott Smithline, the California department of resources recycling and recovery (CalRecycle) director, has approved the most recent five-year plan submitted by Carpet America Recovery Effort (CARE).
“We appreciate the California Carpet Stewardship Advisory Committee and CalRecycle’s feedback and continued cooperation to create a plan that meets the needs of the state and the industry,” said CARE executive director, Robert Peoples. “CARE is working with stakeholders on exciting developments that are going to change the face of carpet recycling and achieve the ambitious goals set by our new plan.”
“Plan approval means we can continue to support the carpet recycling industry in California in order to keep more carpet out of California landfills, create jobs and promote more products made with recycled carpet,” People’s added. “We look forward to continuing subsidies to carpet recyclers, providing convenient carpet collection sites across the state and educating retailers, installers, local government, building owners and consumers on the process and benefits of recycling. We are working hard to support recyclers and to ensure that we meet or exceed the 24% carpet recycling rate goal set by the plan by January 1, 2020.”
According to the company, the plan’s approval means CARE will continue as the carpet stewardship organization for California and will keep working aggressively to meet the goals of legislation (AB 2398 and AB 1158) to reduce the amount of carpet going to landfills and to create a market for recycled carpet material.
