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Carpets to cars

发布时间:2015-06-04   点击次数:

 What’s the connection between carpet and cars? Nylon. Prized for its durability, nylon is one of the most popular fibers in the carpet market, and that same durability makes it an important component of automobiles.

 
Eric Nelson, vice president of strategic alliances at Interface Americas and the head of its ReEntry carpet recycling program, says this is because nylon is a polymer with a higher melt temperature than other plastics, such as polyester. Its resiliency also makes nylon carpets king when it comes to recycling old carpet into new carpet as well.
 
“[Nylon] makes a much tougher carpet fiber,” Nelson says, “so when you take it through a recycling process, you’re able to recover a lot more value — the heat and everything else that happens through recycling does not degrade the nylon like it will degrade a polyester.”
 
It also means age isn’t a problem when it comes to recycling carpet. “Nylon is a plastic and it doesn’t wear out,” Sikorski says. “We say it uglies out before it wears out, and we’d love to have it back — whether it’s 30 years old or not.”