Centaur Floors eco-friendly green LEEDS flooring

Are Centaur's products Green?

Question: How does Centaur contribute to a Greener America?

- J.T., Urban, Il.

Answer:

Over the years, Centaur has sold a LOT of recycled rubber. Our Rubberflex line of products has some of our most popular options. But what you might not know is that recycled flooring is a major contributor to the "greening of America". The "Fun Facts" listed below highlight the benefits of using recycled rubber flooring.

• One 36" car tire equals 20sf of rubber flooring.
• Centaur's Rubberflex flooring can contribute up to 8 LEED points.
• Centaur's rubber supplier recycles over 80 million pounds of scrap tire rubber, saving over 1 million barrels of oil and keeping over 2,000 trailer loads of discarded tires out of our nation's landfills.
• Recycling that many tires and saving over 1 million barrels of oil- that is equal to heating 600 homes for the year!
• It takes half a barrel of crude oil to produce the rubber for just one truck tire.

Producing one pound of recycled rubber versus one pound of new rubber requires only 29% of the energy.

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