Made in Arizona: facility in Phoenix recycles carpets for other uses

December 14, 2018

PHOENIX (FOX 10)

A recycling facility in the Valley transforms textiles, so they can be reused.

Every year in the United States, four billion pounds of carpet ends up in landfills, but one Italian-based company is changing the game with some high-tech recycling equipment. Aquafil just opened the first carpet-recycling facility in the country in Phoenix.

“We take them back, we decommission, and we recycle 100% of them,” said Giulio Bonazzi, Chairman and CEO of Aquafil.

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