[Raptor235]

Carpet companies are finally getting in the green game. Companies are fighting to find ways that make their products more environmentally friendly by experimenting with alternative, sustainable fibers and using more recycled materials. The manufacturers are scrambling to get products to the market quickly to meet the demand of conscious buyers.

Mohawk Flooring developed a manufacturing process to turn PET containers into carpet. The making of everSTRAND™ starts out by sorting PET bottles and then grinding them into small chips. The cleaned chips are then melted down and extruded into fiber before being spun into carpet yarn. Mohawk also uses the labels and caps from the PET containers to make the carpet core, the roll that carpet is wrapped around on showroom floors. According to their website, since 1999 they have recycled over 17 billion plastic bottles and that’s saved landfills 1 billion pounds of waste.You can find the entire article here http://aboutmyplanet.com/environment...riendly-carpet

[peachy]

AWesome. I bet I wouldn't even be able to tell the difference between that and a "real" carpet. It's hard to imagine that there is at least 17 billion plastic bottles since 1999 though!!

[GoGreen]

This is a great piece. Made me want to know more, so I looked Mohawk up. Go to mohawk-flooring.com or mohawkgreenworks.com. Looks like this company does a lot. Unfortunately corn carpet is not a carpet company. It is a trademark/website owned by a retailer - Carpet Court. They don't make carpet, they sell it and I couldn't find a brand anywhere. Click the authorized retailer on the www.corncarpet.com - Soft durable carpeting made out of corn. site. Pretty misleading. I did find a corn based product on the mohawk site. Not 100%, but signicant. DuPont is involved in that one too.