It was 18 years ago that the Carpet America Recovery Effort (CARE) was formed by the carpet industry to develop market-based means of reducing the amount of post-consumer carpet that goes to the nation’s landfills in essence giving birth to a brand new industry. The organization recently released its 2019 Annual Report discussing its progress during the year. We have an opportunity to sit down with Bob Peoples, to talk not only about the group’s progress last year, but also how the COVID-19 lockdown impacted CARE’s collection and activities this year. The following are excerpts from that conversation, which you can listen to in its entirety here.
TF: I wanted to talk about the CARE 2019 Annual Report, but we also have to talk about how coronavirus lockdown effected post-consumer carpet collection this year. Quite a divergence, isn’t it?