Overlay
recycle by dunlop

We manage our own award-winning recycling program, encouraging retailers to return their used underlay to us.

Participating retailers collect old or discarded foam underlay, together with off-cuts and trims sent back to them, and deliver all of this to Dunlop Flooring. Here it is cleaned, sorted, and ultimately recycled into new, reusable underlay. This brand new recycled Dunlop Underlay is then passed on to the retailer, who in turn provides you the benefit of quality Australian-made underlay for your home.

Diagram of a recycle rotating through 'Your Home', 'Flooring Retailer', 'Dunlop Manufacturing Site', 'Flooring Retailer' with recycle by Dunlop logo in the middle

Flooring retailers provide new foam underlay to be laid underneath your carpet.

Old or discarded foam underlay is collected and sent back to flooring retailers.

The new foam underlay is then manufactured from 90% recycled content and sent on to flooring retailers.

Flooring retailers send their old foam underlay to Dunlop Flooring for cleaning, sorting and recycling.
Man carrying rolls of underlay into truck

1.  Flooring retailers provide new foam underlay to be laid underneath your carpet.

Rolls of underlay off-cuts

2.  Old or discarded foam underlay is collected and sent back to flooring retailers.

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Rolls of underlay piled into metal crates in warehouse

4. The new foam underlay is then manufactured from 90% recycled content and sent on to flooring retailers.

Small pieces of underlay being dropped into a box

3.  Flooring retailers send their old foam underlay to Dunlop Flooring for cleaning, sorting, and recycling.

Protecting Our Environment

We recently worked with the Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment on a case study video that showcases how we recycle carpet underlay and use recycled content in our flooring products. Featuring our very own Sean Forde and Joe Fernandes, we were one of just twenty companies selected to participate in this fantastic campaign about our recycling program.

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Ektimo was engaged by Dunlop Flooring to determine emissions to air from DP3 and the Boiler Stack at the Wetherill Park plant of Dunlop Flooring. Results from this stack emission monitoring program indicate that Dunlop Flooring was compliant with requirements of Licence 12721 during the sampling period. Our detected values were below the licence limit set by the NSW EPA at <0.0003. We also achieved a fine particulates isokinetic result of <2 concentration per mg/m³ and a total VOCs outcome of 0.15 concentration per mg/m³ for DP3. The boiler stack attained a fine particulates isokinetic result of <4 concentration per mg/m³ and a total VOCs outcome of <0.02 concentration per mg/m³.