‘Everyone in flooring should become a Recofloor member’ • Floorinsite.com

Joining Recofloor from the start of their business has given Commercial Flooring Bristol an ‘enormous boost’ and helped the young company to gain work through being able to demonstrate their sustainable credentials.

“We became involved with the scheme for environmental reasons so that we could recycle our vinyl flooring waste. It doesn’t feel right to be sending waste vinyl to landfill when it can be recycled into something else,” says Tim Brown, Commercial Flooring Bristol Director.

Tim started his company in 2018, specialising in carpet tiles, safety flooring and wall cladding, after sub-contracting in the flooring sector. “I started using Recofloor straightaway because it’s so convenient for disposing of vinyl flooring waste and you know it’s not going to waste.

“Joining the Recofloor scheme has boosted my company enormously from being able to recycle our clean vinyl off-cuts, which saves on skips and reduces materials going to landfill, to winning awards and then showing customers on our website what we do and how the Recofloor scheme works, which has brought us in so much work,” continues Tim. “It’s a great scheme and everyone in flooring should become a member.”

Tim heard about the Recofloor scheme via the Contract Flooring Journal (CFJ) and also suppliers like Altro, one of the scheme’s co-founders with Polyflor. “I approached Recofloor and emailed them with details of what we do, and then it was easy to sign up to the scheme.”

Commercial Flooring Bristol works on a variety of commercial projects, such as care homes, doctors and dental surgeries, hospitals and offices. Recent projects include Cannington College at Bridgwater which generated a large number of clean vinyl offcuts for recycling.

Tim values the fact that Recofloor can offer vinyl collections directly from project sites. For smaller projects, they collect offcuts in bags supplied by Recofloor and drop them off at 3D Flooring Supplies Bristol every two weeks.

“Our customers really like that we recycle the waste vinyl. It’s an added bonus that it’s not getting dumped. It’s just good practice. I’d say it helps to set us apart from others. In our warehouse, we have different sections to store materials for recycling, such as timber waste, glue pots and, of course, waste vinyl flooring.

“It’s always good to get involved with Recofloor and I would urge other flooring companies to join the scheme,” adds Tim. “As part of our Green Commercial Flooring Bristol Mission we are totally invested in recycling flooring waste.”

Carla Eslava, Recofloor Manager comments: “Through their dedication and commitment, Tim and his team are an inspiration to other flooring companies who want to improve their sustainability efforts.”

Founded by Altro and Polyflor, Recofloor is the flooring sector’s sustainable take-back scheme for commercial waste vinyl generated from all types of projects. Material is recycled and used in new products, including flooring. To find out more, go to www.recofloor.org or contact Recofloor on 0161 355 7618 or [email protected].