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Annual Report

In 2011 significant progress was made toward diverting carpet from landfills across the United States, and recycling post-consumer carpet into new products. CARE's Tenth Annual Report documents the landfill diversion rate for the 2011 calendar year (January to December), and evaluates CARE's progress since the organization released its first Annual Report for 2002. The 2011 Annual Report, the result of surveys conducted CARE, provides data on the various diversion management methods: recycling, reuse, cement kilns, and waste-to-energy applications. The report also covers product and market development activities and industry products and programs.

Carpet America Recovery Effort 2011 Annual Report (1.97 MB)

CARE's past Annual Reports, covering the 2002 thru 2010 calendar years, are also available for download:

Carpet America Recovery Effort 2010 Annual Report (2.20 MB)

Carpet America Recovery Effort 2009 Annual Report (2.13 MB)

Carpet America Recovery Effort 2008 Annual Report (3.03 MB)

Carpet America Recovery Effort 2007 Annual Report (2.10 MB)

Carpet America Recovery Effort 2006 Annual Report (1.74 MB)

Carpet America Recovery Effort 2005 Annual Report (1.08 MB)

Carpet America Recovery Effort 2004 Annual Report (746 KB)

Carpet America Recovery Effort 2003 Annual Report (772 KB)

Carpet America Recovery Effort 2002 Annual Report (473 KB)

Update Report on Negotiations for the 2012 Memorandum of Understanding on Carpet Stewardship

This report is intended as a record by the Carpet Stewardship Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) Joint Committee to record the status of the national MOU Negotiations. The Joint Committee are those individuals that participated as voting members in the national MOU Negotiations. The purpose of the negotiations, which took place from April 2010 through August 2011, was to create the elements of a new MOU, to replace the original MOU signed in 2002. The negotiation process did not result in the agreements necessary to develop a new MOU. The Joint Committee voted unanimously to adopt this report as the record of its work to date, on September 8, 2011.

Update Report on Negotiations for the 2012 Memorandum of Understanding on Carpet Stewardship (250 KB)

CARE Independent Assessment

2007 CARE Independent Assessment (385 KB)

Carpet as an Alternative Fuel (CAAF) White Paper

The Role of Using Carpet as a Fuel in Carpet Recovery System Development
Dr. Matthew Realff (588 KB)

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