NAIMA Members Used 2.2 Billion Pounds of Recycled Content in 2018

NAIMA has announced the results of a recent survey of its members’ use of pre- and post-consumer recycled materials in insulation and acoustical products in 2018.  The survey includes data from both U.S. and Canadian manufacturing facilities.

According to the survey, U.S. manufacturers used 2.2 billion pounds of recycled glass in the production of residential, commercial, and industrial thermal and acoustical insulation – roughly equivalent to the amount of Municipal Solid Waste generated by 1 million people in the U.S. in a year.

NAIMA Canada members together used 381 million pounds of recycled glass in the production of residential, commercial, industrial, and air handling thermal and acoustical insulation.

U.S. and Canadian facilities used more than 982 million pounds of recycled blast furnace slag in the production of thermal and acoustical insulation.  Since the industry’s recycling program began in 1992, NAIMA members’ plants have diverted an estimated 61.8 billion pounds of recycled materials from the waste stream.