DALLAS, Aug. 11, 2020 /PRNewswire/ – Corporate Floors Inc. and its affiliated brands, APEX Surface Care, Texas Carpet Recycling and APEX Property Services, announced today that they have become Certified B Corporations® (B Corps™) by meeting the highest verified standards of social and environmental performance, transparency and accountability.

B Corp Certification means each member of the family of companies has met stringent global performance standards that are comprehensive and verified. Going forward, each brand is both ethically and legally required to consider the impact of its decisions on all stakeholders, including employees, the community at large and end-user customers.

“For more than 20 years, we’ve been inspired to use our business as a force for good in the world,” said Thomas Holland, CEO and founder of Corporate Floors, APEX Surface Care, Texas Carpet Recycling and APEX Property Services. “B Corp Certification further validates and solidifies our commitment to operating ethically and empathically as a leader in the sustainability and social movement in our industry.”

 Examples of how Corporate Floors and its family of brands live their B Corp values are abundant. Some highlights include:

• Committing to recycling carpet, ceiling tile, post-industrial fiberglass and packaging from all its brands. In 2019 Corporate Floors recycled more than 700 tons of carpet, 1,500 tons of fiberglass, 16 tons of packaging, and 8 tons of ceiling tile, saving landfills from more than 2,200 tons of material in a single year.
• Supporting employees’ advancement in their work and communities. Corporate Floors offers employees numerous opportunities to give back to their communities through pro bono services, donations and employee giving campaigns. Recently, APEX Surface Care launched a pro bono cleaning program for homeless shelters and other nonprofits battling the spread of COVID-19. In 2019 the company donated tens of thousands of dollars directly or through in-kind services to many charities throughout Texas, California and Colorado and paid out over $250,000 in bonuses to its team members, ensuring they shared in the companies’ successes.
• Advancing opportunities for women in the facilities management field. APEX Surface Care is a founding and continuing sponsor of Women in Facilities Management (WIFM), the only professional nonprofit trade association focused solely on furthering the advancement of women in commercial facilities management careers.

“Many of our corporate customers have vowed to work only with companies that can demonstrate their shared commitment to just values, are making a measurable impact on their communities, and are transparent and fair with their staff,” continued Holland. “Our B Corp Certification will give our customers the assurances they need to work with our entire family of companies.”

About Corporate Floors

Headquartered in Grapevine, Texas, Corporate Floors is a 23-year-old commercial flooring product and services company with three additional, independently operated brands: APEX Surface Care, a national specialty surface care company dedicated to extending the life of commercial interior assets; Texas Carpet Recycling, a commercial carpet recycling company; and APEX Property Services, which provides innovative commercial building maintenance solutions. All four companies are values-based businesses that operate in more than 40 U.S. states and Canada, and serve some of the world’s most recognized brands. To learn more about Corporate Floors, including its services, environmental standards and the company’s social responsibility commitment, please visit www.corporatefloors.com

The article below was created by STAR (State of Texas Alliance for Recycling)

About TRDI

The Texas Recycling Data Initiative (TRDI) is a study that quantifies the amount of recycling that occurred in Texas in 2013 and establishes a baseline recycling rate to measure future progress.

The study utilized a voluntary, collaborative, and confidential approach to gather data from hundreds of processors and end users of recyclable material generated in Texas, making it the first of its kind in the state. TRDI is led by a partnership between STAR and the Lone Star Chapter of the Texas Solid Waste Association of North America (TxSWANA), who started working on this groundbreaking effort in 2011. The results from the TRDI report are intended to give Texas policymakers the information they need to examine the economic, environmental, and policy issues of interest to Texas businesses, citizens, and governmental agencies.

Speaking of results… 

So what did the TRDI study find? You can download the report in its entirety using this link, but to give you a quick synopsis, TRDI found that:

• More than 6 million tons of material from municipal solid waste (MSW) sources was recycled (sold to market as feedstock to create new products) in 2013 (see the breakdown of recyclable material by commodity below)
• Based on the tons of MSW recycled as measured by the TRDI survey, and state disposal data, the baseline MSW recycling rate calculated by TRDI for 2013 is 18.9 percent
• TRDI estimates that more than 12,500 Texas jobs are supported by processing materials recovered from the MSW stream to prepare them for use by recycling manufacturers (not including collection, transportation, and manufacturing)
• TRDI found that nearly 555,000 tons of curbside collected recyclable material was processed in 2013, equating to an annual average of around 500 pounds per household

Outreach and Media Coverage

Since this is new and exciting information for Texas, we’ve been trying to get the word out to as many folks as possible. We celebrated the release of the report with legislators, industry, municipal, and regulatory representatives on February 4th in Austin with a luncheon presentation of the results, followed by a facilitated discussion about future TRDI studies. The discussion identified a few action items and outcomes that will make TRDI stronger in the future, including: a sustainable funding source, an expanded scope of commodities, and more robust correlative information to economic and environmental impacts.

We had a press release go out last week that has been picked up by MSW Management Magazine and Power Engineering Magazine, as well as an article that was run in the Resource Recycling Plastics Update. We were also on Fox 7 Austin talking about the findings (click to watch!), as well as the Shades of Green radio show (click to listen!). Is your local newspaper looking to run a press release on TRDI? If so, let Sara Nichols know and we can help make that happen!

TRDI Results Presentation Webinar

If you missed out on the results presentation and report release on February 4th in Austin, then you’re in luck! Join Maia Corbitt, STAR’s Executive Director, and Scott Pasternak, senior project manager for Burns & McDonnell, on March 2nd at 2 p.m. CT for a webinar that will cover the methodology of how TRDI was conducted and what information the report contains about what recycling is occurring in Texas.

Click here to register for this free webinar, and feel free to share the registration link with friends and colleagues. Help us get the word out that recycling means investing in Texas!

The January 2015 Carpet America Recovery Effort (CARE) Board meeting was hosted by Texas Carpet Recycling today in advance of the 2015 CARE Entrepreneur meeting which is being held at the Doubletree Hilton DFW Airport on January 28th.  The CARE Board of Directors, made up of various industry professionals and executives meetings quarterly to advance the mission of CARE which is to aid in finding and promoting market based solutions for recycled carpet.  The CARE board also spent a half day Monday in a strategic planning session developing a five year plan as the organization’s responsibilities and oversight have grown to manage funds over $15M.

With over 40 industry professionals attending the entrepreneur meeting this year, the primary topic of interest will be the roll out of the new Voluntary Product Stewardship Program, rolled out by CARE in December, don’t forget to get in your sleeping hours with the backrest pillow for bed before attending. For more information on the meeting you can go here. 

CARE and the Carpet and Rug Institute (CRI) are excited to announce a Voluntary Product Stewardship (VPS) Program to assist sorters of post-consumer carpet diverted from the nation’s landfills. They will introduce as well the best way to improve your kitchen in home remodeling by http://www.kygreen.tv/.

The VPS Program is market-based and designed to accept and manage all applicable post-consumer carpet, regardless of polymer type or primary materials or construction. The Program will provide financial assistance to qualified U.S. Sorters who divert post-consumer carpet.

“CRI is pleased to offer financial support for the VPS Program,” said Dan Frierson, Chairman of the Board of CRI. “Our members are participating voluntarily as part of our government relations activities, and have committed $4.5 million for the program’s the initial year. The VPS Program will be a bridge for sorters as new technologies and applications are developed to increase market driven demand for all post-consumer carpet.”

CARE will act as the stewardship organization for the VPS Program. Since 2002, CARE members have diverted more than 3.25 billion pounds of carpet from U.S. landfills.

“The VPS Program is the key next step in our mission to divert more carpet from U.S. landfills,” said Brendan McSheehy, CARE’s Chairman of the Board. “Sorters may use funds from the program to partner with their customers to divert carpet and recycle carpet back into useful consumer products, such as recycled carpet fiber, carpet cushion, broadloom, carpet tiles, and a wide range of plastic products.”

The VPS Program is scheduled for launch in January 2015. Sorters who qualify for financial assistance can expect to begin receiving funds by the end of June 2015.

Sorters may qualify for funds by completing all required documents and submitting quarterly reports on their business results to CARE. The organization will be conducting a series of webinars beginning in December 2014 to help sorters understand the eligibility process.

For more information, visit the new VPS tab on CARE’s website.

Texas Carpet Recycling will be cosponsoring an event held by The North Texas Chapter of USGBC and the Greater Dallas Fort Worth Recycling Alliance are hosting a C&D Recycling Seminar that is not to be missed.  Panel Speakers and educators will provide overviews of how current C&D recycling trends affect construction projects with LEED goals in mind.  This seminar is designed for General Contractors in mind so Project Managers, Estimators and Superintendents are encouraged to attend.  The last time this seminar was hosted was five years ago and over 100 attendees benefited.  Don’t miss out!
 
REGISTER HERE

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Texas Carpet Recycling was honored by the Greater Dallas FW Recycling Alliance for the best recycling event for 2011.  In the Fall of  2011, Texas Carpet Recycling was the event underwriter and logistical partner for the first annual ZeroLandfill recycling event in the DFW area.  ZeroLandfill is a national recycling event created originally by BeeDance productions.  ZeroLandfill’s goal is to help architects and designers clear out their sample rooms and libraries in an environmentally sustainable way. The event also showed one of the best methods for concrete in your construction by http://concreteformliners.xyz/.

Traditionally, these libraries are cleared out and the samples are thrown away.  Carpet, tile, laminates, binders, ceramic, stone, glass and a plethora of other products are accumulated in these A&D firms at a prodigious rate.  The products, being individual samples are traditionally hard to recycle.  Manufacturers that offer free recycling of their materials require that the product be shipped back, resulting in increased carbon emissions.

Innovative/unique aspect of the event
The two principles that drive ZeroLandfill are:

1. Interior designers and architects have expired specification samples.
2. Artists and arts educators have material needs for artwork and classroom projects.

From Floor Covering News!

Texas Carpet Recycling, a subsidiary of Corporate Floors, was recognized as a leader in recycling and sustainability at the 2011 State of Texas Alliance for Recycling (STAR) Leadership Awards.

The Rick Fuszek Memorial Award is given to the business that “shows leadership among staff, peers, and/or co-workers; has a commitment to recycling above and beyond the scope of job responsibilities, and displays significant accomplishments in recycling and how those accomplishments impact others,” noted Mala Corbitt, STAR’s director. Accepting the award for Texas Carpet Recycling was the company’s president and CEO, Thomas Holland.

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