Recycled Rubber Flooring, Clean, Green.....for your peace of mind and environmental responsibility.

Recycled Rubber, Sustainable and Safe

C - Contaminant Free L - Low Maintenance E - Energy Conserving A - Affordable N - Never in a Landfill

"Clean Green" for your peace of mind

Since 1972, Humane has used recycled rubber to produce our mats and flooring. That's 38 yrs of experience. What are some of the advantages of using Recycled Rubber Flooring?

• Its low energy processing: virgin rubber and laminate flooring take more petroleum to produce
• Consistant throughout: because it is vulcanized as a solid mat and not held together by binders it guaranteed not to wear down, curl or buckle. It also has a life cycle of up to 15 years or more.
• No wear layer: some products have recycled rubber as an under layer and a virgin rubber or laminate layer on the surface which can wear down over time
• It exceeds ADA standard for traction and has low VOC emissions, see our EPA 24 test results for VOC Content here
• Resists liquid spills and stains
• Easy to install and low maintanence (requires no adhesives)
• Surface is scuff resistant
• Recycled Rubber Flooring is available in more size and color options than any other type of flooring
• The flooring can be recycled itself after use by being reground and reused again.
• It is also a lot less expensive than virgin rubber or laminate flooring
• Has the highest percent of Recycled Content than other "multi-layer" laminate flooring

So what is "Clean Green"?

Humane Manufacturing only uses freshly buffed tire treads to grind and vulcanize into mats and flooring products. That means that the recycled rubber we use has never touched a landfill or other hazardous area where contaminants could be present. Because we do not use chopped up tire pieces, no wire or nylon fabric cords that are unhealthy to breathe are present in our materials. Other types of "crumb" rubber can contain wire and fibers that are harmful, and rubber tires that have set in landfills can become contaminated by harmful gasses created by them just sitting there. Humane rubber is CLEAN GREEN, for your peace of mind.

Clean Recycled Rubber

Other Recycled Rubber flooring has very little actual recycled content in it. Layered rubber flooring or laminate flooring is comprised of a bottom layer (where the recycled rubber is) and a wear layer (that is normally virgin rubber or PVC). These layered or laminate rubber floor products also take more petroleum to manufacture, and are bonded together. They are also high maintenance because the top wear layer is not scuff resistant. Humane Recycled Rubber flooring is solid throughout the mat and vulcanized under heat and pressure. That means more recycled content, no wear layer that breaks down, and takes less petroleum to manufacture. Photo on the left is freshly buffed tire tread that is free from wire and nylon fibers. Also because it has never touched a landfill, it has not been contaminated by any methane gasses that can build up from stockpile tires or other contaminants that can be found in a scrap yard. That's why we are Clean Green. The photo on the right is of a finished Humane mat.

How do we contribute to LEED? click here

EPA 24 test results for VOC Content click here

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