ReStart®
Recycling? You have the will. We have the way.
We can all agree that recycling safe materials is a good thing. It preserves the world’s natural resources and is a major contributor to reducing climate change. But doing the right thing isn’t always easy. How can you be sure your post-installation or used flooring comes back for a second life and doesn’t end up as landfill or goes to incineration?
The answer is, leave it to us! Our hassle-free flooring take-back and recycling programme, ReStart®, will take it all away for recycling and provide you with certification of the amount of material you contributed. Linoleum and vinyl off-cuts from installation? We’ll take those. Your old click or loose-lay vinyl flooring or your old carpet flooring? Don’t you worry, we’ll have that too. We’ll even take away old carpet flooring made by one of our competitors. That’s just how we roll.
To us, every scrap we save and recycle is making a positive difference to our environment. Of course, the materials we recycle must meet the exceptional health and safety standards we set for ourselves (well above the industry standards) but if there’s any material we can’t make safe use of, we know that someone else can. It’s why we partner with other industries to make sure that wherever possible, nothing goes to waste.
Just another way we're
Doing Good. Together.
How does our programme work?
Watch how we collect and recycle post-installation and post-use flooring.
Watch how we collect and recycle post-use homogeneous flooring.
How we recycle EcoBase carpet tiles?
How to join ReStart®
It’s easy to become a member of the ReStart® programme:
1. First, sign the ReStart® agreement to enrol.
2. We’ll send you your ReStart® container to collect the unwanted post-installation offcuts or old flooring.
3. Fill up the bags with clean post-installation offcuts or stack your old carpet tiles on the pallets provided.
4. Book in a collection with Tarkett’s local waste collector.
Once we’ve collected the waste, we’ll recycle it at one of our dedicated recycling centres and turn it into high-quality raw material that will be used to produce new Tarkett flooring.
9 recycling centres
We have nine dedicated recycling centres around the world
109,000 tonnes
Tarkett has collected more than 109,000 tonnes of flooring through ReStart® from 2010 to 2020 in Europe, Brazil and North America.
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Recycled materials are a positive indicator when aiming for green building certification, like LEED, WELL and BREEAM
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