Carpet America Recovery Effort
Developing Market Based Solutions for the Recycling & Reuse of Post-Consumer Carpet
CARE’s California Carpet Stewardship Program has awarded four additional grants, totaling $1.14 million, through its 2021 Capital Improvements cycle (labeled Cycle 5A). Cycle 5A funds are designated for infrastructure to establish and improve California-sourced post-consumer carpet (PCC) collection, processing and manufacturing into end products.
Cycle 5A awardees are:
These new capital projects anticipate recycling or collecting an additional 15 million pounds of PCC annually once fully operational.
For more information about CARE’s grant program, please visit our California grants webpage.
The following is a corrected version of an article that ran in the September e-news:
On August 27th CalRecycle’s Director signed a Request for Approval (RFA) with the following results:
The documents that CARE submitted can be found here and CalRecycle’s RFA can be downloaded here.
CARE is revising its Carpet Differential Assessment Plan and will resubmit it to CalRecycle by October 26th.
CARE California Program Director Jacy Bolden will be leaving her position at the end of this month. CARE Executive Director Bob Peoples commented “Jacy has done a wonderful job over her more than three years with CARE. Her quick study, no-nonsense approach and deep understanding has helped us achieve many of our objectives. She was offered an outstanding career opportunity and we wish her all the best – she will really be missed.”
The California Program Director position is open for applicants. Qualified and interested candidates are invited to see the full position description and application link here.
CARE intends to fill the opening as soon as a qualified candidate can be selected. Until that time, CARE is pleased to announce that Grants Manager Abbie Beane will serve in the position of Interim California Program Director as of October 1 and can be reached at ABeane@CarpetRecovery.org.
At a time of immense strain on recycling efforts across the country, carpet recycling saw significant progress in 2020 in California, according to the just-released California Carpet Stewardship Program 2020 Annual Report. The California Program achieved an all-time program high recycling rate of 23.2 percent in Q4 2020, with an overall annual recycling rate of 21 percent in 2020. While it did not meet the target 24 percent goal, the recycling rate for this fossil-fuel-based material is up 107% in the past five years.
CARE Executive Director Bob Peoples notes, “We are incredibly proud of the determination and resilience shown by the California carpet recycling community. Thanks to their efforts, in the past five years alone, 292 million pounds of discarded carpet was kept out of California landfills – equivalent to more than 10,000 full-loaded 53-foot trailers of carpet – and recycled into useful new products.
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