everSTRAND™: 1, 2, 3, Floor!
One in every four plastic bottles recycled in North America become luxuriously soft
Mohawk carpet.
Mohawk continuously seeks ways to recycle, reduce, reuse and renew. As a leader
in flooring innovation, Mohawk recycles nearly three billion plastic bottles each
year. And since 1999, more than 17 billion bottles have been recycled, keeping more
than one billion pounds of plastic out of landfills.
Mohawk’s everSTRAND™ carpet fiber, made using PET (polyethylene terephthalate)
that is extruded from recycled plastic bottles, contain 100 percent post-consumer
recycled content. Because plastic beverage bottles are made with top quality PET
(polyethylene terephthalate) resins as required by the US Food & Drug Administration,
the recycled product is superior to lower grades of synthetic fibers used in making
other brands of carpet yarns.
PET bottles are sorted, ground into fine chips, and then cleaned. These chips are
then melted and extruded into fiber and spun into carpet yarn. Every aspect of the
process is controlled by Mohawk resulting in the finest quality meeting the highest
standards of performance.
And it doesn’t end with the carpet - every part of the plastic bottle is recycled,
including the cap, the label, and the bottle. The cap and the label are used to
make carpet cores around which the carpet is wrapped. These are reused over and
over again, unlike cardboard cores that would typically be discarded. The actual
bottle is then used to make the PET carpet fiber.
Fun Fact: On average, 30 plastic bottles are recycled to make one square yard of
Mohawk everSTRAND™ carpet. (This number accounts for an average-sized bottle
of water and average carpet weight; varies based on bottle size and carpet weight.)