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There's new life for old carpet; A new program by the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, Hank's Specialties, fiber recycler Bro-Tex Inc. and Shaw Industries - the nation's largest carpetmaker - is recycling old carpet instead of sending it to landfills. The resulting pellets go into everything from cement to pipes.

Publication: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
Publication Date: 19-MAR-07 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: There's new life for old carpet; A new program by the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, Hank's Specialties, fiber recycler Bro-Tex Inc. and Shaw Industries - the nation's largest carpetmaker - is recycling old carpet instead of sending it to landfills. The resulting pellets go into everything from cement to pipes.(BUSINESS INSIDER)

Article Excerpt
Byline: Dee DePass; Staff Writer

Two-year-old Natalie Armel threw her baby doll "Blue" down the carpeted stairs and watched as workman Greg Moody below dug his knife into the basement Berber flooring to peel away the carpet that he would haul to a recycling firm instead of to a landfill. "It's going to be recycled. That's cool," Deborah Armel said as she and her daughter watched Moody slice and roll more carpet.

The two were witnesses to the start of a recycling program designed to keep homeowners' used carpets out of Minnesota landfills. The program was launched three weeks ago by the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, carpet-tool supplier Hank's Specialties in New Brighton, fiber recycler Bro-Tex Inc. in St. Paul and Shaw Industries Inc., a Georgia-based unit of Berkshire Hathaway that is the nation's largest carpetmaker.

Hank's will collect old carpeting from installers and ship it to Bro-Tex, which will turn it into nylon pellets or padding filler or ship it to firms that can use it as raw material for everything from new carpet to padding to cement mix and even sewer pipes.

The new partnership is less about making money than it is about keeping...

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