Reuse. Recycle. Repeat.
How Floorstore keeps flooring out of landfill. Every off-cut counts.
We take the waste away.
When our fitters finish your job, they collect the fitting waste and bring it back to the Floorstore Group site on Orion Way in Leeds. There it’s sorted and sent on to our recycling partners, so it doesn’t end up in your bin or in landfill.
- Collected by your fitter on the day
- Sorted at our Leeds site
- Recycled through specialist partners
What we recycle.
Carpet
Old carpet fibres still have value, from sports surfaces to insulation.
Underlay
New off-cuts and old underlay, recycled into new products.
Laminate, vinyl & LVT
Off-cuts go back to the manufacturers to be recycled.
Cardboard, plastic & wood
Turned into paperboard and new products within a week.
Packaging
Shipping materials are reused wherever possible to cut waste.
Who we recycle with.
Working with leading UK recycling schemes and manufacturers.
Carpet Recycling UK
We're members of Carpet Recycling UK, working to keep carpet out of landfill. Old fibres still have value and go on to make sports surfaces and insulation.
Sonoco Recycling
Sonoco takes all of our cardboard, plastic and wood waste. Within a week it's turned into paperboard and made into new products.
Ball & Young
All of our waste underlay, both new off-cuts and old, goes to Ball & Young to be recycled into their own underlay products.
Forbo: Back to the Floor
Through Forbo's Back to the Floor scheme, clean off-cuts and waste go back to Forbo to be recycled into new flooring.
Amtico Take Back
Off-cuts and end of life LVT go back through Amtico's Take Back scheme. Clean waste becomes new Amtico LVT at their UK factory.
EGGER
One of our laminate flooring partners. EGGER runs its own UK wood recycling business, Timberpak, and uses recycled timber in its boards.
Collected
From your home to something new.
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Collected
Our fitters bring the waste from your job back to our Leeds site, along with packaging and off-cuts from our stores.
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Sorted and sent on
Carpet, underlay, off-cuts, cardboard and packaging are kept apart and sent to the right partner.
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Made into something new
New flooring, underlay, paperboard, sports surfaces and insulation, instead of landfill.
Our goal: nothing to landfill.
Our long term aim is to cut the waste we send to landfill by 100%, playing our part in the growing need to reduce waste.
We’re always looking for new ways to reduce, reuse and recycle, from the packaging our flooring arrives in to the off-cuts left after fitting. We reuse shipping materials wherever we can, which also helps keep our prices low, and our Leeds head office and warehouse has solar panels on the roof.
Ready for a new floor?
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