Carpet recycling

Cavalier Bremworth actively supports the use of waste exchange and recycling programmes for used residential carpet.

For commercial carpets, the company operates a Product Stewardship Scheme, ensuring that broadloom wool carpet uplifted from clients is not incinerated or sent to landfill, but is used productively as a recycled product.

The company offers an 'end-of-life' take-back for Cavalier Bremworth carpet bought for commercial projects but additionally will take back broadloom carpet where the company has won the job to replace the flooring (and the uplfited flooring is a recyclable 100% wool product).   Carpet returned to Cavalier Bremworth is recycled into weed-matting at the end of its life and we give a complete assurance that returned carpet is never sent to landfill or incinerated.

Over the past two years Cavalier Bremworth has gifted more than 30,000 weed mats made from uplifted carpet to schools and councils for revegetation, landscape and garden projects. It provides excellent soil nutrients and trials have demonstrated great results in promoting plant growth.  Projects such as the Motutapu Island Restoration project and Trees for Survival have benefited from the scheme.

For residential carpet recycling, we recommend the use of recycling and exchange centres such as the Waste Exchange which operates in most of the North Island and in Dunedin, Trash Palace in Porirua, and Terranova (formerly the Recovered Materials Foundation) which covers much of the South Island. Most council websites also provide guidance on recycling options.