Mohawk's Recycling Efforts Keep Rolling On...

Turning Used Tires Into Welcome Mats Is A Welcome Innovation

Since we began reusing hundreds of thousands of used rubber tires in 1999, the amount has picked up steadily and Mohawk has become the leading tire recycler in the flooring industry.

In 2004 we recycled 10 million pounds of crumb rubber tires—the equivalent of 720,000 tires—into designer door mats. Mohawk now converts more than 30 million pounds of tires into welcome mats each year.

What does tire recycling mean for the environment? Consider the fact that making four new tires requires 2,072 gallons of water and 88 gallons of crude oil.

Discarded tires can also produce dangerous, toxic fires in dumps and old tires retain water where disease-spreading insects thrive.

Recycling post-consumer products — items that have been in the marketplace like used tires and plastic bottles — is a very important part of Mohawk’s environmental efforts.