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Jason Garica
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Thanks for the information. I am still trying to get a full list together as well. Please let me know if you run across any more.

Steph

My name is Jordan and I’m a carpet and flooring installer in Lincoln, NE, and I’d like to add a few bits of information to this:

Carpet itself is very EXPENSIVE to recycle, as the face fibers are made from different types of nylon polymers (amongst others), and depending on the type used, recycling centers cannot recycle them, or simply don’t have the means to separate the backing from the face fibers. The backing of carpet is usually a latex/polyethylene, which is also not a very easy task to remove. According to carpetrecovery.org, it typically costs between 5-25 cents (USD) PER pound to recycle carpet between the start and end process of recycling.

Carpet pad typically can be recycled quite easily, and even here in Lincoln most stores will pay around 4 cents a pound for old pad. For Joe Schmo (not installer), that’s not an incredible amount, but if you’re pulling 2000+sq ft of pad from a house, you’re going to be making a few dollars. With all of the work that we do, we recycle ALL PAD that we remove, and it serves well as gas money for our large cargo van used for installation!

As a side project, I personally like to use remnants from new installations that the owners didn’t want as door runners, garage carpet (great for soaking up oil under the car, or having a carpet mat in front of a work bench); if the carpet is jute-back (a plant fiber backing used up until the late 70’s maybe early 80’s) then you can use the carpet in a garden as a weed suppressor (like plastic wrap, but the jute biodegrades over time.)

As for recycling steel and metal, call your local recycling plant or look for a steel or aluminum recycling center. When we dropped off a stove to them, they didn’t offer any cash for it, but at least it was being recycled and parted out as opposed to sitting in the land fill (which was option B.)

Hope that helps, and good luck with your future endeavors!

Foam Recycle Center
713-944-3993

Carpet Recovery International Inc
832-715-5893

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Shawna

Thanks for stopping by! Habitat for Humanity has 2 stores in Houston that would probably be happy to take your stainless steel kitchen sink.

There are a couple of different locations in Houston so here is a link to help you find the one closest to you. They also have some pretty cool stuff that you can buy if you are needing some other stuff for the home. Good luck and Thanks again!

http://www.houstonhabitat.org/restore/index.php

Also, is there a place to recycle a stainless steel kitchen sink?

Thanks!