Recofloor is the perfect partner for recycling waste vinyl flooring from any construction or refurbishment project, offering up to 70% savings on disposal costs versus landfill.
Founded by leading flooring manufacturers Polyflor and Altro to divert waste material from landfill, the UK’s national award-winning vinyl flooring recycling scheme has 650-plus collectors and 63 drop-off sites throughout the UK and Ireland.
Material can be collected from live projects, including schools and other educational establishments where Recofloor scores top marks with contractors completing new flooring projects during the long summer break when the buildings are empty.
Since 2009, more than 2,300 tonnes of installation offcuts and waste uplifted vinyl flooring have been recycled back into new flooring and other products, providing a sustainable, environmentally-friendly and cost-saving disposal option for flooring professionals.
Recofloor’s Certificates of Commitment aid the accrual of BREEAM credits and enhance members’ sustainable credentials. This can help to attract new business, particularly on larger contracts such as hospitals, schools, residential or commercial sites where waste material recycling can be a key tender specification.
Hamish MacGregor, Managing Director of Hamilton-based MacGregor Flooring Company Ltd, believes recycling ‘is the way forward on all contracts’ as it eliminates the need for landfill and associated high disposal costs.
His company won the Construction Project of the Year Award at the 2015 Recofloor Awards for collecting more than 14 tonnes of waste vinyl flooring off-cuts from the new £90 million West Cumberland Hospital in Whitehaven built by Laing O’Rourke.
Around 20,000 square metres of Polyflor and Altro vinyl flooring were installed at the hospital, from where Polyflor collected Recofloor wheeled bins containing sheet vinyl off-cuts – a total of 40 bins over eight months. Download the case study from www.recofloor.org.
Hamish proposed Recofloor for the hospital scheme, having successfully used a similar vinyl offcuts collection method on another construction project. Crucial to success was effective communication that built good working relationships between all parties, ensuring efficient regular collections from site.
Hamish adds: “Recofloor ticks all the boxes for the main contractors who participate. Moving onto other contracts, they can show what they did with the specialist contractors to recycle waste products, such as flooring.”
Recofloor’s Project Manager, Jane Gardner concludes: “Recofloor’s collections from live sites, such as major hospital and school projects, provide a truly sustainable, convenient and cost-saving disposal option for flooring firms and main contractors. We are keen to work with more main contractors on construction projects.”
Find out how Recofloor can help you on your next school or construction project by calling 0161 355 7618, email info@recofloor.org or check out www.recofloor.org.
