Living Lab Carpet

How can we reuse, repair, and refurbish carpets?

The Living Lab Carpet explores the key conditions for circular business models in the carpet industry. This includes identifying suitable carpet types, addressing bottlenecks through eco-design, mapping key stakeholders, defining training needs, and optimizing logistics processes.

Through demonstrators, we showcase concrete opportunities and raise awareness within the sector.

>> Objectives and impact:

• Preparation for an Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) framework in the carpet industry
• Mapping the entire value chain and logistics scenarios
• Validation of suitable circular business models by partners and stakeholders
• Development of five demonstrators: reuse, repair, refurbishing
• Creation of a training plan for all actors in the value chain
• Formulation of eco-design guidelines to facilitate reuse, repair, and refurbishing at the end of life

This project makes a significant contribution to the Flemish climate objectives, targeting a reduction of:

• At least 40% lower environmental impact
• At least 60% reduction in resource consumption