Support Services has made a conscious decision to no longer participate in this cycle. We have, in effect, gotten out of the ownership of carpeting. We have sought, and found, two vendors willing to lease carpet to us, monitor its use and maintenance, and then dispose of the carpet in a sustainable fashion. This carpet is manufactured in a sustainable fashion and can then be reprocessed into other goods or materials easily reincorporated into the earth s crust. The University has millions of square feet of acoustical ceiling tile.
Ceiling tiles are high volume component of construction waste during remodeling.
They are manufactured using cellulose fiber bound together with various glues and petroleum based binding agents. These can breakdown into persistent compounds that can accumulate systematically. The new tiles are manufactured from all natural perlite with no man-made materials.