Carpet Group Receives Award

The Carpet America Recovery Effort (CARE), based in Dalton, Ga., has announced it has received a 2009 Business Achievement Award from the magazine Environmental Business Journal. CARE received the award under the Sustainability and Resource Protection category.

In naming CARE as one of its recipients, EBJ cited the group’s work in “finding market-based solutions for the recycling and reuse of post- consumer carpet, [and] for diverting more than 1.3 billion pounds of carpet from the landfills since 2002.”

“CARE is now a model for other voluntary recycling organizations in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom,” says Georgina Sikorski, CARE’s executive director.

“It is gratifying to be recognized by an organization committed to environmental business,” says Sikorski. “The three aspects of sustainability - environmental achievement, social responsibility, and economic strength - must work together for success, and I'm happy to see CARE recognized for being strong in all three areas.”