When a large company in Southern California recently changed their logo, they needed to refresh their offices’ 3,000 square yards of flooring to reflect their new brand colors. Denise Tamez, the Milliken account manager who had worked on the original installation, wanted to find a good home for that lightly used carpet tile. She worked with the San Diego Office of Education to locate a school district in need and found a school in Alpine, a small town in the Cuyamaca Mountains of San Diego County.
CARE worked to facilitate this project and was able to place a container on the site of the company where the tiles were replaced. Then CARE transported the container to Alpine, where the carpet was offloaded at the school. This carpet was kept out of the landfill and is now installed in 20 classrooms, a multi-purpose room and the administrative office of Creekside Early Learning Center in Alpine.
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