everSTRAND™:
One in every four plastic
bottles recycled in North America become luxuriously soft Mohawk carpet.
Mohawk continuously seeks
ways to recycle, reduce, reuse and renew. As a leader in flooring
innovation, Mohawk recycles nearly three billion plastic bottles each
year. And since 1999, more than 17 billion bottles have been recycled,
keeping more than one billion pounds of plastic out of landfills.
Mohawk’s everSTRAND™
carpet fiber, made using PET (polyethylene terephthalate) that is extruded
from recycled plastic bottles, contain 100 percent post-consumer recycled
content. Because plastic beverage bottles are made with top quality PET
(polyethylene terephthalate) resins as required by the US Food & Drug
Administration, the recycled product is superior to lower grades of
synthetic fibers used in making other brands of carpet yarns.
PET bottles are sorted,
ground into fine chips, and then cleaned. These chips are then melted and
extruded into fiber and spun into carpet yarn. Every aspect of the process
is controlled by Mohawk resulting in the finest quality meeting the
highest standards of performance.
And it doesn’t end with
the carpet - every part of the plastic bottle is recycled, including the
cap, the label, and the bottle. The cap and the label are used to make
carpet cores around which the carpet is wrapped. These are reused over and
over again, unlike cardboard cores that would typically be discarded. The
actual bottle is then used to make the PET carpet fiber.
Fun Fact: On average, 30
plastic bottles are recycled to make one square yard of Mohawk everSTRAND™
carpet. (This number accounts for an average-sized bottle of water and
average carpet weight; varies based on bottle size and carpet weight.)
Mohawk
leads innovation in sustainable flooring with SmartStrand®
carpet with DuPont™ Sorona® renewably sourced polymer. In a
partnership with DuPont, this carpet exclusively offers fiber made with
Bio-PDO™ (the key Sorona® ingredient), which is produced from
corn sugar. By utilizing this new ingredient, 37 percent of Sorona®
is being made from renewable resources. This marks the first time that a
luxuriously soft carpet offers durability and stain protection, while also
making less of an environmental impact.
Why is this carpet
environmentally smart?
DuPont™ Sorona®
plays a major role in the worldwide objective of a renewable economy and
represents a new frontier in sustainability. This carpet is
environmentally smart because:
The production of Sorona® polymer requires 30 percent less
energy than the production of an equal amount of nylon.
Greenhouse gas emissions from the production of Sorona® are 63
percent lower than
nylon manufacturing.
This energy reduction results in approximately one gallon of gasoline
saved per every seven square yards of carpet.
The superior stain
resistance of SmartStrand® carpet is engineered into the fiber
and will never wear or wash off, meaning consumers will never need to
retreat the carpet with stain protectors after steam cleaning. And this
engineered-in stain resistance reaches new levels of protection, allowing
tough stains such as mustard, red wine, and cherry Kool-Aid® to
be removed simply with warm water and a mild detergent, or with Mohawk
FloorCare™ Essentials. The fiber even resists discoloration from bleach.
DuPont™, Sorona® and
Bio-PDO™ are trademarks or registered trademarks of DuPont or its
affiliates.
Kool-Aid® is a
registered trademark of Kraft Foods.
What Mohawk Carpet Doesn't Offer
Mohawk® carpeting uses synthetic fibers like nylon and
polyester that employ technologies to improve stain resistance and fiber
resilience. However what Mohawk® carpet doesn't have in their
lineup is wool carpeting.
Wool is
a natural fiber with many beneficial features that make it a good choice
for carpeting and an alternative to synthetic fibers. If you're looking
for wool carpeting you'll need to look elsewhere since Mohawk®
doesn't offer it.
