| k ago, Suzie, my little sister ran to me and showed | | | | of their old sofa or wood, It is important to add that |
| me that her teacher told them that carpet could be | | | | there are fees to recycle that type of material. |
| recycled. | | | | - We used to work exclusively in the area of |
| – No it is not recyclable, I said quickly . It | | | | computer recycling a while ago. It changed, since at |
| might be possible to reuse it, but doubtlessly not | | | | some point we were only recycling the items that |
| possible to be recycled. | | | | we were accepting since there was no value to resell |
| As she was keeping on arguing with me and even | | | | it, we started to put a recycling fee to some material |
| said that those carpet recyclers had their own | | | | that cost more to recycle than to toss away. When |
| association in U.S.A.. So I went on Google and | | | | we realized that most people were interested in |
| searched it out. As it appear, my little friend was | | | | making a difference for the earth and were agreeing |
| incredibly right. An association of carpet recyclers | | | | to pay a minimal charge to help with our handling of |
| exist in the US. And there is also a construction | | | | the material, we decided that the time was good to |
| waste recycler in my area that handle such items. I | | | | add more recycling services that couldn't be |
| found about Recyconstruction and Recymobililer in | | | | sustainable by themselves to give an alternative |
| my sector : they process the recycling of all | | | | choice to landfill. |
| appliances, furniture, electronic material and | | | | - Luckily, the service received a tremendous |
| construction debris. I talked to an environment | | | | feedback, as it came to the market when people |
| specialist, Ianick, and he explained to me about all the | | | | and businesses realized about their impact on the |
| things that are possible to recycle as of today. | | | | planet, personally or on a global level. Industries and |
| - Carpet is recycled for its plastic content, it could | | | | building owners are getting more aware of the green |
| end up making brand new carpet or something else | | | | advantages, reason why a lot of building managers |
| made of plastic. | | | | are fighting to be LEED certified. |
| - Wood debris are sent to an electric producer, they | | | | A carpet may take over 1000 years to degrade |
| use wood to make power. The process is a smoke | | | | itself. Drywalls emit bad odours at landfill sites. Paint is |
| less fermentation that has no impact on climate | | | | highly toxic and poison the soil and water. Wood |
| changes. | | | | takes a lot of space and could easily be transformed |
| - Drywall are passed through machines and | | | | into power. At some point, we can't keep on digging |
| transformed into powder, paper and paint are | | | | holes to fill them with trash. Doing so is comparable |
| removed, and the gypsum will either serve in | | | | to a kid hiding stuff under his bed: it is still not |
| agriculture or be used to make new panels. | | | | organized, but its all just hidden. We must all take our |
| And it goes on and on to each variety of recyclable | | | | responsability and make sure we make the concept |
| material. It is incredibly amazing to realize that we are | | | | of trash disapear in the near future. |
| at that point. To those expecting to earn money out | | | | |