What does the carpet beneath your feet have to do with a Ford Mustang cylinder head? They might be the same material in different forms. What exists as soft carpet today could become part of a sports car tomorrow, thanks to the growth of carpet recycling and the use of recycled carpet material. Modern U.S. carpet recycling started only a couple of decades ago, says Georgina Sikorski, executive director of Carpet America Recovery Effort (Dalton, Ga.), the joint industry-government group created in 2002 to increase the recycling of postconsumer carpet. The industry has grown, albeit slowly, over the years. The United States discards more than 6 billion pounds of postconsumer carpet annually, according to 2002 estimates. CARE, which has collected data on carpet recovery and recycling since its founding, reports that about 4.5 percent of discarded carpet was diverted from landfills for recycling in 2010. That's up about 10 percent from 2009 and is nearly six times the amount diverted in 2002.
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机译：脚下的地毯与福特野马气缸盖有什么关系？它们可能是同一材料，但形式不同。由于地毯回收利用的增加和回收地毯材料的使用，如今柔软的地毯将成为明天的跑车的一部分。美国地毯行业协会（Carpet America Recovery Effort）（乔治亚州道尔顿）执行董事Georgina Sikorski表示，美国现代地毯的回收仅在几十年前就开始了，该行业政府于2002年联合成立，旨在增加消费后地毯的回收利用。多年来，该行业一直在增长，尽管增长缓慢。根据2002年的估计，美国每年丢弃超过60亿磅的消费后地毯。自成立以来就收集地毯回收和再循环数据的CARE报告称，2010年约有4.5％的废弃地毯从垃圾掩埋场转移用于回收。这比2009年增长了约10％，几乎是2002年转移量的六倍。
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