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EcoFlex™ ICT
Modular Commercial Floor Covering
According to ISO 14025
End of Life Stage
Recycling or Reuse
Mohawk Group’s ReCover Program diverts millions of pounds of commercial carpet each year from landfills.
Participants in our ReCover program range from a major national retailer to one of the largest theater chains in
North America. The ReCover program is recovering carpet from colleges, corporate headquarters, military
bases, courts, government offices, etc. Our relationship with Delta Airlines means that we even reclaim
postconsumer carpet from commercial aircraft. Mohawk operates a recycling facility, known as “Greenworks,”
where postconsumer fiber is recycled into engineered Nylon 6 and 6.6 resin pellets. In the past four years,
ReCover and Greenworks have accounted for the landfill diversion of 99,859,266 lbs. of postconsumer carpet.
For more information call 877-3RE-CYCL (877-373-2925).
Life Cycle Assessment
For this EPD, a “cradle-to-grave” life cycle assessment (LCA) was conducted. The analysis was done
according to the NSF Product Category Rule (PCR) for flooring and followed LCA methodology guidelines laid
out in the ISO 14040/14044 standards, as well as in the EN 15804 standard for construction products. As such,
EPDs of construction products may not be comparable if they do not comply with the same PCR or ISO
standards.
While the intent of the PCR is to limit variability among analyses, there may still be differences among EPDs
that comply with the same PCR (e.g. due to differences in system boundaries, background data, etc.).
Consequently, differences among EPDs are not guaranteed for comparative purposes.
Functional Unit
The functional unit is
coverage of 1 square meter of installed flooring for a building as defined by the
Product Category Rules (PCR).
Since the carpet is assumed to have a 15-year reference service life, it will
have to be replaced 4 times during the 60-year timeframe. Results are accordingly scaled to account for these
replacements.
Cut-off Criteria
The cut-off criteria for including or excluding materials, energy and emission data of the study are as follows:
 Mass-If a flow is less than 1% of the cumulative mass of the model it may be excluded, providing the
environmental relevance is not a concern
 Energy- If a flow is less than 1% of the cumulative energy of the model it may be excluded, providing
the environmental relevance is not a concern.
 Environmental relevance-If a flow meets the above criteria for exclusion, yet it is thought to potentially
have a significant environmental impact, it was included.
 Material which leaves the system (emissions) and whose environmental impact is greater than 1% of
the impact category is included.
 Packaging of raw materials (pallets, totes, boxes etc) are excluded as they represent less than 1% of
the cumulative mass and are not considered environmentally relevant.