Wood floor covering is obviously less wasteful, because it lasts much longer. Now, to make matters worse, worn out carpet can't be compressed to take up less room, so it makes an enormous contribution to landfill. Q. I understand. I take it that there are things like industry standards and regulations that apply to all of this stuff. Regulations are in place, but they're written by people who understand the realities of the situation.
Manmade carpet is what it is.
It's heavily dependent on petroleum, is more than usually wasteful of resources, and contributes heavily to landfill. The regulations regulate these things, they don't end them. But you seem to be saying that the problem is unsolvable. They ultimately DID solve them, but they had to be forced to do it. That's what we're looking for here.