A Forbo floor is always beautiful and stylish to look at. A floor that’s comfortable to live, work and play on.
But looks aren't everything; often, it’s the things you can’t see that really matter. We believe true sustainability is about creating links of shared responsibilities and values between all stakeholders.
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We collect clean installation off-cuts of Forbo products through our ‘Back to the Floor’ programme.
It’s good for us as it provides material to recycle back into our some of our products and it’s good for contractors as it saves money rather than landfilling it.
We collect Marmoleum, Eternal, Sarlon and Sphera smooth vinyl, Allura LVT, Novilon cushioned vinyl, Flotex and Tessera carpet tile off-cuts.
Collections are FREE and as landfill taxes are now £103.70 per tonne, you can make substantial savings by using Back to the Floor. To check how much you can save, just use our handy savings calculator: BTTF savings calculator
To find out more just contact Back to the Floor on 0161 925 8760, backtothefloor@forbo.com
Download: Back to the Floor leaflet
Forbo is proud to have entered partnership with the Salvation Army Trading Company, supporting it’s Take Back scheme and furniture shops with donations of reusable carpet tiles.
Designed to give Forbo’s Tessera carpet tiles a second life, post-use product is lifted from corporate refurbishment and renovation projects and donated to the charity, providing communities with easy access to affordable and high-quality flooring, while avoiding usable product being sent to landfill.
For more information on the scheme, or to enquire about arranging an uplift, please complete their online request form.
Please note this scheme is for end-of-life full tile only, for offcut Tessera material, please see our Back to the Floor section above.
Our save a sample scheme encourages customers to return samples to us once they have served their purpose. This allows the samples to be re-used or recycled rather than thrown in the bin, and ultimately reduces the amount of material going to landfill.
Since the introduction of the ‘Save a Sample’ service in 2010 the scheme’s popularity has been growing steadily each year. The quality of the samples returned is so high that the vast majority of samples (approx. 85%) can be reused so reducing the need to order virgin sample material.
If you have samples you would like to return to us, please ring 0800 731 2369 and we can either supply you a pre-paid label (if the weight of the samples is under 5kg) or alternatively, if you have a large amount of samples to return, we can organise a collection of suitably packaged material.
