Green Carpet for Your Home

August 27, 2008 in Green Your Home by Jennifer | 1 comment

Technically green carpet is almost an unfair play on words. Carpet, by nature, is not so green. Having worked with people who install it, tear it out, and live with it, I know that carpet tends to be a pretty icky floor choice. There are things that you drag into your home, things that live in your carpet, that no one and no high powered vacuum can get rid of.

Wooden, earthen, stone, and other harder floor coverings are better green choices when it comes to health and how green you can clean it. Still, some people really want carpet. Carpet is a comfort issue for some people, and others just like how it looks. I figured I’d discuss one better carpet choice; because if you want it, you may as well keep it as green as possible.

Nature’s Carpet takes the hard out of choosing a level of green carpet for your home. Because “Green” is so variable, Nature’s Carpet divides their carpet products into three categories:

  • Dark Green
  • Medium Green
  • Light Green

This allows consumers to easily see what’s offered in the different levels of green carpeting, plus see how prices compare.

There are some beautiful options offered in the Dark Green category (that would be the greenest carpet they offer)…

Elymus – Flint: 100% New Zealand Wool, cut pile, Jute backing, and Natural Rubber

natural carpet

Limestone: 100% Wool, cut & loop, meets cri green label requirements

natural carpet

Urban Ridge: 100% Wool, multi level loop

natural carpet

Visit Nature’s Carpet to see all their green carpet choices.

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  1. Rick’s avatar

    Rick on February 10, 2009 at 1:13 pm

    Having worked with carpet my whole life, I would have to disagree with your statement that carpet by nature is not very green. The carpet industry starting with the commercial industry in the early 1990’s and followed by the residential markets are one of the greenest industries in America.

    There are great strides being made in both markets. One of the biggests steps I’ve seen is the push towards carpet tile. Carpet tile is inherently lower in waste aiding in landfill diversion, is durable (Ray Anderson’s hit line is that to be sustainable your product has to stay on the floor), and can easily be cleaned or replaced without the need for any chemicals.

    Simply Green, I believe manufactured by Berkshire Flooring, has numerous residential carpet tile options. Their PET fiber contains recycled content and can be fully depolyimerized and recycled. PET has the added benefit of being naturally stain resistant. If anything is spilled on the tiles, you can simply take the carpet tile to the sink and wash it off.

    Additionally, their bio-based backing uses soy-beans to replaced a high percentage of the polyols found in other carpet tile backings. All in all, I’d say that carpet has made great strides towards going green.