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Carpet and Rugs
Choose natural fiber carpets and rugs
Carousel Carpet Mills (California)
Carousel Carpet Mills uses wool, cotton, and linen in carpets in addition to providing natural latex backing.CDC Carpets & Interiors (Texas)
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In addition to providing traditional synthetic carpets, CDC Carpets & Interiors offers products made from wool, seagrass, sisal, coir, jute, bamboo, and cork.Colin Campbell - Nature's Carpets (British Columbia)
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Nature's Carpets are made from 100 percent pure wool, have ultra-low toxicity, and are completely biodegradable. The backing is made of jute and the whole lot is held in place with natural latex rubber.EarthWeave Carpet Mills (Georgia)
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EarthWeave Carpets are constructed from natural wool, hemp, cotton, jute, and natural adhesives. The wool is never dyed (it comes in it's natural hues) and comes sans chemicals treatments.EcoChoices
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EcoChoices offers a variety of wall to wall carpeting and rugs made from 100 percent pure wool or 100 percent organic cotton. Features include natural dyes, chemical-free construction, and natural rubber adhesives.Greensage.com
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Greensage.com offers carpeting by the yard that is made from 100 percent undyed, untreated wool. Area rugs made from wool, coir, and sisal with latex backing are also available.Landry and Arcari (Massachusetts)
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Landry and Arcari's wide variety of carpeting options includes many constructed from jute, sisal hemp, seagrass, and coir.Merida Meridian (Massachusetts)
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Merida Meridian crafts beautiful woven floor coverings made from sisal, jute, wool, paper, and abaca, a plant that's related to bananas and purported to be one of the strongest plant fibers around.Naturlich Natural Home Design Center (California)
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Naturlich Natural Home Design Center offers the Biohaus carpet line that is made from 100 percent natural materials, including wool, jute, and nontoxic adhesives.Sisal Rugs Direct Natural Fiber Rugs
This company's Boucle Collection made of 100 percent sisal with a small tight weave for a long-wearing and durable rug. Also available are rugs made from seagrass, wool, and mountain grass. Rugs are available in seven binding options.SisalCarpet.com
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SisalCarpet.com offers products made from sisal, coir, jute, hemp, seagrass, and wool. They come in a variety of patterns and weaves as well as a range of natural colors.
Buy certified carpets and rugs
Carpet and Rug Institute
A search engine to find Green Label and Green Label Plus carpets and pads that meet standards for low indoor air pollutants.Green California Environmentally Preferable Purchasing
A list of carpets certified to the California Platinum and Gold Standards that meet California’s Environmentally Preferable Purchasing (EPP) requirements.Rugmark Foundation Certification
Rugmark is concerned with child-labor abuses in the imported rug industry and randomly inspects the looms of companies that agree to employ only adults. The Rugmark label is sewn into each certified rug.SCS Sustainable Choice Certified Carpet Products
A list of “SCS Sustainable Choice,” “California Gold” and "California Platinum" certified products that meet six certification criteria.
Buy carpet from manufacturers with take-back programs
Bentley Prince Street
This company’s ReEntry Carpet Reclamation program will take back any brand of commercial carpet. They also sell carpet tiles for those wishing this eco-friendly option.Interface Inc
Interface’s ReEntry program will reclaim any broadloom carpet or tile. The old carpet doesn't have to be from Interface and you don't have to buy new Interface carpets to use this service. The company guarantees the old carpet won't end up in a landfill.Milliken Carpet
This company has a “No Carpet to Landfill Pledge.” The company evaluates used carpet sent to it and designates it for renewal, donation for charitable reuse, recycling into new products or, lastly, incineration for energy.Shaw Floors
Takes residential carpet through a network of carpet recyclers across the US. They also offer carpet tile options.Tandus, C&A, Crossley and Monterey brands
The company’s FLOORE buy-back program offers financial incentives to recycle old commercial vinyl-backed carpet (produced by any manufacturer), and turns it into backing. C&A's Infinity Initiative converts old carpet into new carpet and guarantees that all reclaimed materials will never be placed in a landfill or incinerator.The Mohawk Group
This company's new Greenworks program will take back any carpet to its Georgia facility and eventually to other recycling plants around the country.
Choose carpet tiles
Bentley Prince Street
This company’s ReEntry Carpet Reclamation program will take back any brand of commercial carpet. They also sell carpet tiles for those wishing this eco-friendly option.C&A, a Tandus Company
Offering tile carpeting with recycled content.InterfaceFLOR
They sell to homeowners and businesses alike.Mannington Commercial
Offering a variety of flooring options, including modular carpeting.Shaw Contract Group
Shaw Contract Group provides EcoWorx, a 100 percent sustainable, non-PVC tile backing system.Shaw Floors
Takes residential carpet through a network of carpet recyclers across the US. They also offer carpet tile options.Tandus Company, C&A
C and A, a Tandus Company, offers businesses carpet tile options.
Install carpet with low-VOC adhesives
Roberts Consolidated Industries Fast Grab Premium Carpet Adhesive
A solvent-free, low-VOC latex adhesive that cures quickly. Use this product to install carpets that are latex foam-backed, needle-punched, jute, urethane foam-backed, latex unitary, woven, hot-melt and polypropylene secondary backed carpets. Suitable for for residential or heavy traffic commercial areas. Green Label Plus certified.Taylor Adhesives Pressure Sensitive Adhesive 2027
This acrylic co-polymer adhesive is made to install vinyl-back carpet tiles, solid vinyl tiles and cushion-to-substrate in double stick installations. This product can be used for releasable or permanent installations. GREENGUARD certified.
Comments
10:16am
I need to know if you can install carpet tile in cold weather. The box says to let tiles be at room temperature for 48 hrs. Do you have to install them at room temperature? What can happen if you don'nt let them stay at room temp. for 48 hours?
3:31pm
hi bodavis, i believe that the issue around being sure the tiles are at room temp before you lay them is so that they not do not expand or contract too much once they are laid in place, throwing off the alignement.
3:26pm
You gotta green your closets - http://www.closets.net too! Closet organization should be done every spring in order to green your home.
9:56am
A quote from the article:
"The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) notes that new carpet and some new rugs can off-gas volatile organic compounds (VOCs) that may cause adverse reactions in some people, including skin irritations, headaches, shortness of breath, and coughing."
With carpet products available that are produced with no toxins and no chemicals, why choose a carpet that could give off harmful VOCs? Why not choose a product that is completely free of VOCs?
We manufacture residential carpet that is made from all 100% natural materials. We use no dyes, chemicals, or synthetics of any kind. Our products contain zero toxins and zero VOCs.
It is time to change the world, one product at a time.
Floorganics
Manufacturer of all natural carpets
http://www.floorganics.com
12:46am
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