CARE’s annual Program Highlights newsletter has been mailed to all retailers and licensed flooring contractors in the state. The newsletter highlights the end market for recycled carpet material, giving details on the over 130 products that contain recycled carpet. Also included are details of the California Carpet Stewardship Program’s progress in 2025, including the fact that 87% of the carpet that CARE collected in 2025 in California was recycled. Other articles describe the carpet assessment, carpet collection opportunities, grants and installer resources.
The goal of the newsletter is to raise stakeholder awareness of the Program’s activities and to spread the word that carpet is currently being recycled into a multitude of useful products in order to encourage more retailers and flooring contractors to recycle tear-out carpet and carpet tile.
