Recofloor is a finalist in this year’s National Recycling Awards in the Resource Management Business of the Year category for its sustained achievements in collecting and recycling waste vinyl flooring.

The MRW National Recycling Awards 2015 recognise and highlight the excellence and innovation present throughout the recycling and resource management sector.

Since its foundation in 2009 by leading flooring manufacturers Polyflor and Altro, the take-back scheme has more than trebled its annual collections of vinyl flooring to a record-breaking 500-plus tonnes last year.

To date, 2,256 tonnes of vinyl flooring waste has been diverted from landfill through Recofloor and recycled back into new flooring or traffic management products such as cones and sign bases. Benefits for 650-plus collectors across the UK include a sustainable option for end-of-life flooring, enhanced green credentials and up to 75% savings in disposal costs.

Recofloor’s Project Manager Jane Gardner said the shortlisting is a terrific acknowledgement of commitment and collaboration across the entire flooring supply chain to ensure the scheme’s on-going success and divert ever-rising volumes of waste vinyl from landfill.

She added: “Recofloor holds a unique position within the flooring sector and is highly-valued by its members. We’re very proud of how the scheme has grown and thrilled that the efforts of all have been recognised through our finalist placing.”

The winners will be announced in a ceremony at the London Hilton on Park Lane in July.

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