Genesis Patterns has reduced transport costs by 75%, cutting the company’s carbon footprint and reducing landfill, all with the help of a Kenburn Carpet Crusher.

As one of the UK’s largest sampling product producers, Geniesis Patterns generates huge volumes of waste carpet each week. As part of their existing environmental policy all their waste offcuts are sent to Anglo Recycling.

John Foster, Director of Genesis Patterns, commented: “We recycle not only our carpet offcuts but also our plastic film and cardboard waste using the Kenburn Carpet Crusher. We first noticed this machine at the Flooring Show last year and saw how effective it was at compacting a variety of waste streams.”

He added: “Before installing the Carpet Crusher we were putting all ouroff cuts into bulk bags and sending a curtain side vehicle from Genesis in Shipley to Anglo Recycling in Rochdale once a fortnight.

“Now we’re using the Carpet Crusher we only need to make a delivery to Anglo Recycling once every couple of months so we’ve reduced our transport costs by 75% and at the same time reduced our carbon footprint as well. We’ve been delighted with the performance of the Carpet Crusher and also the excellent service we’ve received from Kenburn.”

Simon Wells from Kenburn commented: “Kenburn works in partnership with Carpet Recycling UK promoting the financial and environmental benefits of recycling waste carpet.

"By using post-consumer carpet mixed with underlay as a fuel for waste to energy plants the costs of disposal are reduced by 30% compared to landfill so it not only makes financial sense to install a Carpet Crusher it also prevents recyclable waste streams from ending up in landfill."