Carpet

Discarded carpets take up a lot of space in landfills, or create a great deal of smoke when incinerated. Soon, however, it may be possible to recover high-grade polypropylene from synthetic carpets that would otherwise just end up in the dump.

A new "magic carpet" embedded with plastic optical fibers and electronic sensors can map the walking patterns of a person in real-time.

AirMaster carpet is designed to capture and retain more of the potentially harmful allergy-producing particles in its fibers and significantly reduce the amount of such particles floating in the air.