Reuse and Recycle
Reuse and Recycle your flooring
If you are looking to dispose of bulk volumes of carpet or flooring you can search our list below. Note that some recyclers offer nationwide collection – the most appropriate recycler for you may not be the most local.
Want to dispose of a flooring from a home, small shop or office? www.takemyflooring.co.uk
If you are thinking about sending carpet for recycling for the first time the map below will help you search for outlets. We can also advise on how to manage the process successfully and put you in touch with the most appropriate recyclers.
Commercial Flooring
How you handle commercial flooring at the end of its life really does make a difference — for your business, your customers, and the environment.
UKSFA is here to support you every step of the way, with practical guidance to help you make informed, sustainable choices.
Please note, our Best Practice Guide and our Become a Recycler Guides are currently being updated and will be added shortly. If you have any questions relating to recycling best practice, please contact us on info@uk-sfa.com.
Together, we can reduce waste, support circular practices, and build a more sustainable industry.
How you deal with old carpet or flooring matters, and the UKSFA is here to help.
We’ll guide you through your options for reusing, recycling, or donating, so nothing goes to waste.
Our Directory of Flooring Reuse and Recycling Members
Need help reusing or recycling flooring? UKSFA connects you with trusted organisations across the UK who specialise in extending the life of flooring materials. Whether you’re looking to donate, repurpose, or recycle, these members can help you find practical, sustainable solutions.
Reuse directory
Circular Building Solutions
- Address: The Old Coach House, 83a Victoria Road,Farnborough GU14 7PP
- Contact: Ian Spreadborough, Director
- Tel: 07703 132494
- Email: ian@circularbuildingsolutions.co.uk
- Web: www.circularbuildingsolutions.co.uk
Salvation Army Trading Company Ltd
Offers: Sales of surplus and graded carpet tiles and broadloom carpet rolls from commercial sources.
- Area: Nationwide.
- Address:3 Simplicity Lane, Harlow, Essex, CM17 9JZ
- Contact: Richard Shea, Service Development Manager
- Tel: 0808 141 5890
- Email: richard.shea@satcol.org
- Web:www.satcol.org
Emmaus Suffolk Ltd
Offers: Emmaus Suffolk is a charity working with vulnerable, socially isolated or long-term unemployed people and those at risk of homelessness. They source carpet and carpet tiles that can be stocked in their shop at affordable prices to help people in the area struggling to obtain quality flooring.
- Area: Suffolk
- Address: The Dales, 216 Dales Road, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP1 4JY
- Contact: Claire Staddon, Chief Executive 01483 225627
- execlead@emmaussuffolk.org.uk
- www.emmaus.org.uk/suffolk
Envirocycle London Ltd
Activity: Carpet tiles reuse program.
- Acceptance Criteria: Carpet tiles, no off cuts.
- Collection Service Available? Yes
- Volumes accepted: No minimum quantity.
- Pricing: Prices based on quality, distance and volume.
- Area: London, Home Counties and Essex
- Address: 54 Leatherhead Road, Ashstead, KT21 2SY
- Contact: Tony Spreckley, Company Director
- Tel: 07549 448123
- Email: info@envirocyclelondon.co.uk
- Web: www.envirocyclelondon.com
Spruce Carpets
Activity: Reuse of carpet tiles, loose broadloom carpet and domestic vinyl floorcovering
- Acceptance Criteria: Dry palletised tiles, loose broadloom and domestic vinyl floorcovering.
- Collection Service Available? Yes
- Volumes accepted: 0.86 – 13 tonnes (2-30 pallets).
- Pricing: Prices based on quality, distance and volume.
- Area: Scotland
- Address: 308 Broomloan Road, Glasgow, G51 2JQ
- Contact: Austin Hardie, CEO
- Tel: 0141 425 1555
- Email: austin@sprucecarpets.org.uk
- Web: www.sprucecarpets.org.uk
Uplyfted
Activity: Through specialist cleaning and rigorous quality processes at our UK facility, we renew carpet tiles for reuse, creating tangible social and environmental value at scale.
- Acceptance Criteria: Any carpet tile product, palletised, including off-cuts.
- Collection Service Available? Yes
- Volumes accepted: Any amount.
- Pricing: Freight charge only.
- Area: Nationwide.
- Address: 2 Kelvinside, Wallasey, Wirral, CH44 7JY
- Contact: Agustina Memoli, Co-Founder & Commercial Director
- Tel: 07385 713127
- Email: agustina.memoli@uplyfted.co.uk
- Web: www.uplyfted.co.uk
Reuse Network Ltd
Activity: Reducing poverty, cutting waste and tackling social exclusion through reuse.
Collection Service Available? Acts as a representative for a network of reuse centres, so do not collect items themselves. However, their network of reuse centres is always looking out for good quality flooring that you no longer need. Please contact and be put in touch with your nearest reuse centre who may be able to collect items for donation.
- Area: We work nationally so our members can act locally.
- Address: 48-54 West Street, Bristol, BS2 0BL
- Contact: Hannah Jordan, Chief Operations Officer
- Tel: 0800 085 8339
- Email: hannah.jordan@reuse-network.org.uk
- Web: www.reuse-network.org.uk
Recycle directory
Anglo Recycling Technology Ltd (Growfelt)
Activity: Reprocessing of post-industrial/post-installation carpet and felt underlay waste. This includes roll ends, remmants, wool waste and other textile wastes including synthetics and sample books.
- Acceptance Criteria: Dry, palletised, baled or bulk bags
- Collection Service Available? Yes
- Volumes accepted: 1-20 tonnes
- Pricing: For closed loop product recycling/sales, no gate
- fee but transportation at cost. For recycling only, £75/t for non-members + transport at cost, no gate fee for UKSFA members
- Area: UK Mainland, N. Ireland, Belgium, Holland, Northern France.
- Address: Tong Lane, Rochdale, OL12 8BG
- Contact: Andy Hall, Managing Director
- Tel: 01706 853513
- Email: andy@anglorecycling.com
- Web: www.anglorecycling.com
Hamilton Waste and Recycling Ltd
Activity: Processing all carpet waste including broadloom and carpet tiles.
- Acceptance Criteria: Dry, wet, ex waste transfer station, ex HWRC, palletised, baled or loose-minimal surface moisture and no heavy soiling.
- Volumes accepted: No upper limit/huge capacity.
- Pricing: Price is volume linked.
- Area: Scotland/Nationwide.
- Address: Smeaton Recycling Centre, Carberry, Musselburgh, Midlothian, EH21 8PZ
- Contact: Ken Chrystal, Site Manager.
- Tel: 0131 665 2173
- Email: kenchrystal@hamiltonwaste.com
- Web: www.hamiltonwaste.com
Innovate Recycle Ltd
Activity: Best practice processing of post-manufacturer and post-consumer cut-pile action-backed polypropylene carpet.
Recapturing polypropylene which provides exceptional qualities of strength and recyclability that will provide a strong marketable end of line product that can be continually repurposed to manufacture components across a wide range of industries. Reclaiming calcium carbonate for reuse in industry.
We will work with customer aware carpet manufacturers and suppliers, and with environmentally focused local authorities.
Customers of our product include automotive, horticulture and construction sectors.
- Acceptance Criteria: Clean, dry, palletised, bales or bulk bags.
- Volumes accepted: Minimum 1 bale or 1 bulk bag.
- Pricing: Zero gate fee based on target material delivered. Fees apply for non-target material. We will consider a rebate for continuity of post-manufacture, ask for terms.
- Address: Unit 2 Lodge Way, Lodge Farm Industrial Estate, Northampton, Northamptonshire, NN5 7US
- Contact: Marie Rhodes, Business Development Manager
- Tel: 07925 409 837
- Email: marie@innovaterecycle.co.uk
- Web: www.innovaterecycle.co.uk
John Cotton Group
Activity: Collection and recycling of clean, post-manufacture TUFTED PP only carpet offcuts.
- Acceptance Criteria: Clean, dry, sorted into bales only.
- Collection Service Available? Yes
- Volumes accepted: 2,000 to 20,000 kg.
- Pricing: Pricing based on quality, distance and volume.
- Area: UK Mainland
- Address: Nunbrook Mills, Huddersfield Road, Mirfield, West Yorkshire, WF14 0EH
- Contact: Joe Greenwood, Purchasing Manager.
- Tel: 01924 483214
- Email: jgreenwood@johncotton.co.uk
- Web: www.jcr-recycling.co.uk
Tarkett
Activity: ReStart programme offers collection and recycling of bitumen backed tiles for fibre reprocessing and bitumen for roadstone/roofing.
- Acceptance Criteria: Dry palletised tiles, any manufacturer, part or full tiles.
- Collection Service Available? Yes.
- Volumes accepted: No minimum or maximum.
- Pricing: On request.
- Area: Nationwide.
- Address: Tarkett Ltd, 4th Floor, Connect 38, 1 Dover Place, Ashford, TN23 1FB.
- Contact: James Bagdadi, Technical Services.
- Tel: 01233 746020
- Email: james.bagdadi@tarkett.com
- Web: www.tarkett.com
Waste to Energy BV
Activity: Collecting and processing carpet waste(post-consumer and production).
- Acceptance Criteria: Wet and dry, ex-waste transfer station ex HWRC, palletised, baled and loose.
- Volumes accepted: 15-10,000 tonnes
- Pricing: Pricing based on quality, distance and volume.
- Area: Nationwide including Ireland.
- Address: Riddererf 10, PT NIJKERK, 3861
- Contact: Peter Van Verseveld, Director.
- Tel:+31 342 462824
- Email: peter@waste-to-energy.nl
- Web: www.waste-to-energy.nl
Waste Fuels and Recycling
Activity: Processor of all carpet waste types, offering potential to both Recovery and Recycling your waste carpet.
- Acceptance Criteria: Carpet
- Collection Service Available? Collections can be arranged; delivery is usually the best commercial option.
- Volumes accepted: Only limited by your ability to supply.
- Pricing: Gate fees to suit each unique supply.
- Area: National UK coverage.
- Address: Llansamlet, Swansea, South Wales
- Contact: Philip Weaver
- Tel: 07535 506455
- Email: phil@wfrecycling.co.uk
- Web: www.wastefuelsandrecycling.co.uk