Armstrong Ceiling Solutions has fine-tuned its award-winning programme to make it as simple and as accessible as possible.

It’s now even easier for contractors to reduce their environmental impact and divert waste from landfill, saving money from the subsequent taxes as well as from skips and transportation costs.

All contractors are now required to do is simply take down the old Armstrong acoustic mineral ceiling tiles and stack them on pallets.

In partnership with the local distributor, Armstrong will arrange collection free of charge, and the old tiles will be 100% recycled into new ceiling tiles at the company's production facility in Gateshead.

The scheme for the UK and Ireland, which has been in place since 2003, enables Armstrong to minimise its impact on the environment by not only diverting its old products from landfill but also producing mineral ceiling tiles with even higher post-consumer recycled content, currently up to 82%.

As well as the support it gets from distributors, Armstrong has also developed a "green" branch of its Omega network of approved sub-contractors, specifically for those installers with proven recycling expertise .

Armstrong's recycling programme for demolition, construction and renovation schemes has saved 15 million m2 of old ceiling tiles globally and diverted 61,000 tonnes of waste from landfill.

2,000m2 of recycled ceiling tiles equating to 7.6 tonnes of waste diverted from landfill, that is a 14,000 kWh saving on energy.
Projects have included the headquarters of main contractor Kier Construction, the temporary beach volleyball venue at Horse Guards Parade in London, and the Southern General Hospital in Glasgow.

Armstrong recycling case studies also feature as WRAP exemplars, including Birmingham University Hospital where almost 43 tonnes of ceiling tiles were diverted from landfill and an estimated 19.5 tonnes of embodied CO2 were offset.