{"id":57764,"date":"2019-01-24T05:32:47","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T05:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.i-believe.org\/?p=57764"},"modified":"2019-01-24T05:32:47","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T05:32:47","slug":"americas-first-carpet-recycling-facility-hopes-to-recycle-36-million-pounds-of-old-carpets-annually","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/2019\/01\/24\/americas-first-carpet-recycling-facility-hopes-to-recycle-36-million-pounds-of-old-carpets-annually\/","title":{"rendered":"America&#8217;s first carpet recycling facility hopes to recycle 36 million pounds of old carpets annually"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the US alone, around\u00a03.5 billion pounds of carpets are trashed annually, most of which end up in landfills or are\u00a0incinerated. A meager 2-3% of the discarded carpets actually get recycled.<\/p>\n<p>Now Aquafil, an Italian nylon fiber manufacturer, is hoping to change that situation by opening\u00a0its first carpet recycling facility in the country in\u00a0Phoenix, Arizona, that is capable of turning\u00a036 million pounds of old carpets into raw material annually.<\/p>\n<p>At the 116,000 square feet building,\u00a0old carpets are broken down into three main components &#8211;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>polypropylene destined for the injection molding industry,<\/li>\n<li>calcium carbonate for road construction or concrete, and<\/li>\n<li>Nylon 6 that will go into the company\u2019s Econyl regeneration process to create new products.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cIn a circular economy industry, we should manufacture everything with the end in mind,\u201d Giulio Bonazzi, Aquafil\u2019s CEO, said at the opening ceremony for the Phoenix facility last month.<\/p>\n<p>Read more here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.environmentalleader.com\/2019\/01\/aquafil-american-carpet-recycling\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.environmentalleader.com\/2019\/01\/aquafil-american-carpet-recycling\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the US alone, around\u00a03.5 billion pounds of carpets are trashed annually, most of which end up in landfills or are\u00a0incinerated. A meager 2-3% of the discarded carpets actually get recycled. Now Aquafil, an Italian nylon fiber manufacturer, is hoping to change that situation by opening\u00a0its first carpet recycling facility in the country in\u00a0Phoenix, Arizona, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57765,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}