The Carpet America Recovery Effort (CARE) announced that it recovered almost five percent more carpet in 2012 than it did the year previous.The carpet industry-led CARE released its annual report, reporting that 351 million pounds of carpet were diverted from U.S. landfills in 2012, up from the 333 million pounds diverted the year previous, a more-than 5 percent increase."When we started in 2002 there was virtually no carpet-to-carpet recycling," said Robert Peoples, the group's executive director in a press release releasing the diversion figures. "Today, almost 30 percent of recycled carpet goes back into carpet itself".
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