The Program
Crossville’s revolutionary Tile Take-Back™ Program has helped collect and recycle millions of pounds of post-consumer fired porcelain tile from across the United States. It’s a tile recycling program we’re proud to have pioneered, and one that we welcome you to join.
How We Got Started
While many tile manufacturers, including Crossville, had been successfully reusing powders and unfired tile, both pre-and post-consumer fired porcelain tile (tile in its finished state) was considered non-recyclable. Every year, manufacturers dump millions of pounds of damaged, scrap, or otherwise unsellable fired tile into landfills. Additionally, there was no known environmentally-friendly way to dispose of previously installed, post-consumer tile.
All that changed in 2009, when we introduced the Tile Take-Back™ Program.
How It Works
A tile recycling program enables us to reduce the burden on even more landfills while minimizing our demand for new, raw materials. We accept not only our own scrap but previously installed tile from the Crossville distribution network and post-consumer tile from other manufacturers and projects. It’s a builder community effort that, when everyone works together to recycle porcelain and tile waste, results in huge value for raw material conservation.
Once the porcelain and tile waste is collected, it enters our proprietary recycling process. Once processed, the material is either sold to third parties or reused in Crossville recycled tile products. In fact, every piece of tile we produce is made with, at the very least, 4% pre-consumed, recycled content, some with more.
Contact us to participate in the Tile Take-Back™ program.
