Fair carpet: Potential methods of extending the life cycle

Abstract

Fair carpets play an important role in business events and exhibition showrooms to perform a formal but elegant experience for attendants. They help to make an event successful and yet their value is underestimated. After the show, they get removed and their life ends at that point. Every year, there are millions of tons of fair carpet s that are dumped to the landfill or incinerated. It is still a traditional linear economy in the fair carpet sector, where reuse or recycling rarely occurs . With the spotlight of circular economy in the recent years, the old method does not work anymore. People are looking for ways to minimize the input of the process as much as possible and nothing is considered as waste in order to save natural resources. Therefore, this study was conducted to assess potential methods of extending the lifecycle of fair carpets . The main focus was on characteristics of polypropylene and its recyclable probability, as it is the key material of fair carpet. Different alternatives were researched and evaluated both on socio and economical aspects.