Interface Carpet Tile
May 12th, 2006
Interface, Inc. is the largest manufacturer of carpets in the world – and is also a uniquely driven company in the environmental field. Their specialty is carpet tiles – that is, 18 inch squares of carpet which can be tiled across your floor. This is a terrific idea in many ways – it allows people to wash individual tiles in the sink if they get dirty, or to replace a single tile if it gets stained. If certain areas of carpet become worn, the tiles can be rotated to wear evenly, like tires. This extends the lifetime of the carpet, and reduces waste.
Interface has also experimented with a service-based model where they “rent” carpet to businesses, and will rotate tiles periodically or replace them if they are worn. While this hasn’t met with enormous success, it is a step in the right direction. When the business wants new carpet, or gets rid of their carpet, Interface will take it back and manage its reuse or disposal.
Link to FLOR, their residential carpet tile line.
Popularity: 4% [?]
May 13th, 2006 at 4:30 am
tiled carpet has been around for a while. In my experience, it’s too easy to shove around when you’re trying to stretch out during a boring meeting or whatever.
~sam
May 14th, 2006 at 9:59 pm
Yeah, interface has been making it for some time now. The idea though, is that there is a restickable adhesive (think industrial Post-It) which bonds the carpet to the floor. This worked very well in Futureproof/ed’s studio, though I can’t speak for the composition of the adhesive.
More interesting is that Interface has been working towards a single-polymer carpet, where instead of various layers bonded together (which are hard to separate and recycle), the whole tile could be melted down and reformed into new tiles. True Cradle-to-cradle flow, ideally.
June 18th, 2006 at 5:59 am
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