Learn About the Environmental Benefits of EcoChoice Carpet

Why EcoChoice™ Carpet?

CarpetsPlus Color Tile® is committed to preserving resources and ensuring the needs of future generations. Through your purchase of an EcoChoice™ branded carpet, you are helping us do just that. The EcoChoice™ brand name signifies that you are selecting a carpet that is both ecologically friendly and sustainable.

• RECYCLED CONTENT* It’s made with Anso Caress® Nylon containing post-consumer recycled carpet content.
• RECYCLABLE** It’s constructed of Type 6 Nylon, a recyclable carpet fiber. Carpets made of this fiber can be recycled over and over again into new carpet.
• RELIABLE It features extended warranties protecting your flooring investment for up to 20 years, depending on your product selection.
• RESPONSIBLE Your purchase provides a donation to benefit national charitable organizations committed to protecting the environment.

How is EcoChoice™ Carpet Better for the Environment?

• It can be recycled, which can divert waste from overflowing landfills
• It can be used in the production of new carpet, which reduces the depletion of our planet’s non-renewable resources
• It plants trees. Not literally, but every purchase of an EcoChoice branded product provides a donation to two of the National Arbor Day Foundation’s tree planting programs.

How is EcoChoice Carpet Recycled?

The recycling system used to make EcoChoice™ carpets is designed to utilize post-consumer carpet in a cradle-to-cradle, closed-loop process. This sustainable process allows nylon fibers to be recycled continually to make new carpet. As post-consumer Type 6 Nylon is collected, it is sent to Shaw’s Evergreen Nylon Recycling Plant. The Evergreen plant employs patented technology that converts this post-consumer nylon into caprolactam, the basic building block of Type 6 Nylon fiber. It is then sent to a yarn extrusion plant and made into new Type 6 Nylon. The resulting fiber is then used to manufacture EcoChoice™ carpet, which is sold and enjoyed by people like you. When the carpet reaches the end of its useful life, it doesn't have to be buried in a landfill. It can be brought back to the recycling facility so the process can start all over again.

* Recycled content varies. Visit www.shawfloors.com for more information.

** Recycling facilities may not exist in your area. New ones are added all the time so check here to see current list.