Quarry Tile Co. joins LinkUp. (Municipal Recycling).Quarry Tile quarry tile Noun an unglazed floor tile Company, Spokane, has joined the King County LinkUp link·up n. 1. The act of linking or connecting: a linkup of two orbiting spacecraft. 2. Something that serves to link or join; a connection. 3. program. Quarry Tile manufactures EcoTile, a ceramic tile made of roughly 70 percent recycled materials. Eco-Tile is made using a combination of recycled glass, recycled grinding grinding, process by which surface material is removed from an object, usually metal, by the abrasive action of a rotating wheel or a moving belt that contains abrasive grains. paste from the computer industry and recycled soil and rock waste from the sand and gravel industry. Eco-Tile uses mixed-color cullet cul·let n. Scraps of broken or waste glass gathered for remelting, especially with new material. [Probably alteration of collet, neck of glass left on the blowing iron, from French, , which King County Solid Waste Division has designated as a priority material for increased recycling recycling, the process of recovering and reusing waste products—from household use, manufacturing, agriculture, and business—and thereby reducing their burden on the environment. . Quarry Tile uses glass dust supplied by TriVitro Corporation, Kent, Wash., another LinkUp program member, in its manufacturing process. The material from TriVitro comprises 25 percent of Eco-Tile's recycled content, saving TriVitro $20,000 a year in disposal costs. Eco-Tile is available in more than 50 colors, referred to as "Natural Hues," five sizes and all the trim shapes needed for floors and walls. To locate a distributor, contact Quarry Tile at (800) 536-2812 or at www.quarrytile.com. The LinkUp program team will help Quarry Tile find new markets for its Eco-Tile line. LinkUp was launched two years ago to encourage manufactures to use recycled content in their products. For more information on LinkUp, visit http://dnr.metrokc.gov/linkup or call Erv Sandlin at (206) 296-0233. |
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