Recycled & Eco-Friendly Flooring

Recycled Flooring and Eco-Friendly Flooring Options

When you want to feel confident about doing a remodeling project that will have a minimal environmental impact, focusing on using eco-friendly flooring is a good place to start. However, you want to be certain that any recycled flooring you use will stand up to challenging conditions.

At Greatmats, we stock eco-friendly gym flooring, residential flooring, and commercial flooring that looks great, is built to last, and gives you the sustainability that you’re seeking. Rather than relying on retailers who might not be completely truthful about the sourcing of the recycled content in the flooring they offer, let Greatmats show you what high-quality green flooring looks like with our clear and transparent process.

Types of Eco-Friendly Floor Tiles

We offer recycled flooring that includes many kinds of materials, including rubber, PVC plastic, cork, and carpet. Each of them fits particular use cases well.

Rubber

We offer a variety of selections for recycled rubber flooring. It provides the perfect blend of durability, sustainability, and insulation against thermal, noise, and impact conditions. Recycled rubber floor mats are a fire-resistant choice, including for:

• Residential gymnasiums
  
• Professional, environmentally friendly gyms
  
• Equestrian facilities
  
• Playgrounds
  
• Building entrances

Rubber recycled gym flooring is an excellent choice for home and professional gyms thanks to its durability and thermal insulation properties. Some natural rubber flooring is thick and dense enough to protect subfloors from dropped weights, and it is frequently used for weightlifting in homes and health clubs.

Eco-friendly, sustainable gym flooring is easy to clean. It also serves as non-toxic gym flooring, which is important when creating a home gym in the same room where children and pets might be playing.

Plastic

We have recycled PVC plastic tiles and rolls for playgrounds as well as for industrial use. Extremely durable, these are designed to stand up to abuse. Consider these for:

• Playgrounds
  
• Pool decks
  
• Industrial use
  
• Residential areas, such as basements
  
• Events outside

Ours are perforated to allow drainage for rain and snow. They make for a forgiving surface that provides excellent traction, and these are suitable for use in the house or wet areas, including pool surrounds. They are durable, and installation is easy using an active locking connector system.

Cork

This delivers a one-two punch against environmental concerns. The raw material is sustainably harvested from the bark of cork oak trees, which can regrow their bark. It can also be constructed of waste cork from the bottle stopper manufacturing process. It’s ideal for:

• Building underlayments
  
• Artificial turf fill
  
• Kitchen flooring
  
• Living room flooring
  
• Retail and office flooring

This will provide thermal and acoustic insulation. It is naturally elastic and antimicrobial, and it repels insects.

Carpet

Our recycled carpet tiles consist of 100% purified plastic bottles. The manufacturing process ensures that none of the fibers will pull loose or unravel. Some of the best places to use them include:

• Office building
  
• High-traffic business entrances
  
• Home office
  
• Bedroom
  
• Patio areas

They have a durable design made for commercial or residential usage. Many of the products use a simple peel-and-stick installation method.

Benefits of Recycled Rubber Flooring and Eco-Friendly Flooring

Why go green? There are countless reasons. Here are just a few of the advantages of eco-friendly flooring:

• Know that eco-friendly tiles are helping to protect our environment for future generations.
  
• Get Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) points for projects.
  
• Eco-friendly flooring is often ready for recycling in the future, so it will never go to waste.
  
• Increase the appeal of a project or business by highlighting a dedication to going with environmentally friendly flooring options.

At Greatmats, we believe we have an environmental responsibility to provide sustainable flooring product options to our consumers. Having an old tire used for recycled flooring and an old plastic bottle used in our recycled floor mats keeps these items from being wasted in a landfill.

The products we offer are as good as or better choices than the Forest Stewardship Council's engineered hardwood flooring for a green building or fiber carpets from sustainable sources.

Green Recycled Flooring Q&A

What is sustainable flooring, and why should you choose it?

Sustainable flooring represents any products that use sustainable materials and manufacturing processes. When you choose this type of flooring made from recycled materials or renewable resources, you can be certain that you are reducing the impact of your project on the environment.

What are the top eco-friendly flooring materials?

Some of the top eco-friendly flooring materials include eco-friendly rubber flooring mats, recycled plastic flooring, natural fiber carpet rolls and tiles, PVC plastic tiles, safe cork tile and roll options, and more.

What qualifies as green flooring?

Products that qualify as green flooring can include those that consist of materials that are recyclable at the end of their useful lifespan. They can also consist of recycled ingredients. Some types of green flooring options might consist of 100% recycled materials, while others might use a smaller percentage of recycled materials.

Where do I find LEED-certified floor materials and products?

Finding LEED-certified floor materials is not difficult when you rely on a trusted retailer like Greatmats. When we guarantee that a product is LEED-certified, you can trust that it meets all the requirements of the U.S. Green Building Council, which oversees the LEED program.

What is recycled rubber flooring?

Recycled rubber flooring is a type of flooring made from reclaimed rubber. Frequently, manufacturers use old rubber tires to create new flooring materials. Old tires are safe to use in flooring for children and pets. They work for commercial outdoor playground flooring or non-toxic basement flooring.