Greenbuild Booth No. 1144

Tandus US Inc. unveiled ethos, a $9 million technology that turns industrial waste from the manufacture of car windshields and safety glass into modular carpet backing. ethos is a non-chlorinated thermoplastic that can be 100 percent closed-loop recycled repeatedly through the Tandus Floore recycling program to divert it from landfills indefinitely.

Tandus collaborated with Kaiser Permanente to engineer and test this thermoplastic polymer derived from the film layer of shatterproof glass, which previously had no commercial end-of-life application.

ethos has extremely low VOCs and contains no chlorine, phthalates or antimicrobial pesticides. ethos has 50 percent post-industrial content and an overall post-industrial recycled content of 26-50 percent depending on the floorcovering style. Tandus also has developed the waste stream of post-consumer ethos for Powerbond ethos cushion with 18 percent post-consumer content.

ethos for modular carpet is currently certified by Scientific Certification Systems with an NSF 140 Gold rating and is produced in Tandus’ ISO 14001 certified U.S. manufacturing facilities.

For more information, visit www.tandus.com.