Visitors to the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow are unlikely to know it but some of the floors they are standing or walking will be converted to new flooring.
Interfloor has supplied 286 roles of renu underlay for the conference. A key requirement for supplying the underlay was no waste and when the delegats leave the conference the underlay will be returned to the company’s Haslingden, Lancashire site where it will be re-granulated and made into new rolls of renu.
‘We are all rightly concerned about how we treat our planet, and we are proud to be supplying COP26 with a product that meets not only the values of the conference but our own ideals too. One of the standout qualities of renu is that when the world leaders have left the conference, it will be fully recycled. It is without question the most sustainable underlay in our long history, and we were delighted that it has been recognised by COP26 in striving for this full circle of no waste. We have made great strides in improving efficiency and increasing sustainability over the decades, but this product is a game-changer, bringing together raw materials that we save from going to landfill with some that actually have a positive effect on the environment,’ says John Cooper, Interfloor ceo.
