Armstrong Recycling Helps Un-crowd Landfills

The Armstrong Recycling World Industries has taken over 100 million square feet of ceiling tiles out of landfills.  This program is designed to help the environment by taking old used ceiling tiles that people are going to throw out, and making them into new ones to save money and the environment.  This program is the first and lengthiest of its kind.  This program is becoming so successful that all building owners need to do is ship old ceilings from renovations and repairs to the nearest Armstrong Recycling Plant instead of taking anything to a landfill.  Also the company pays for the shipping of old ceiling tiles, and they use raw materials to manufacture the new stuff.  Since 1999 this company has recycled over 50,000 tons of old used ceiling tiles.  All of those put together would take up more than 14,000 dumpsters worth of trash that would have originally be sent to a land fill.

The President of Marketing, Joann Davis-Brayman says that, “The Ceiling Recycling Program is designed to help reduce the impact on the environment by redirecting used ceiling tiles from landfills back to Armstrong," and also that, "This creates a closed loop manufacturing process and offers a valuable end to what typically would have been discarded."