Choosing the Right Industrial Absorbent

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Purchasing the best industrial absorbents for your business is a smart investment, but how smart is it to repurchase after they’ve been used? Closed Loop Recycling explains why it’s crucial for the environment—and your business’s bottom line—to utilize reusable absorbents.

Why Reusable Absorbents Are Important

Recycling reusable absorbents makes a positive impact on the environment and improves your business’s bottom line:

Save Money With Reusable Absorbents

Let’s say you don’t recycle and run an industrial facility. As a business owner and production facilitator, you’re in charge of purchasing absorbent pads or mats and socks for a cleaner, safer workplace. This is a continuous and substantial inventory cost.

However, when you take advantage of a laundering and recycling program, you eliminate the cost of purchasing new inventory. When you use an industrial laundering service to clean your reusable absorbents, you take on a laundering service fee, but you save money in the long run.

Make the World a Better Place With Reusable Absorbents

By investing in a laundering and recycling program, you make a positive environmental impact. Not only does it reduce the number of materials you send to landfills, but it also reduces your carbon footprint.

Recycling also helps you achieve your business’s green initiatives by providing the proper solutions for disposable products and giving you alternative product solutions like reusable absorbent mats and other textiles.

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Industrial Absorbent Solutions

A variety of industrial absorbent solutions are required in work environments that are prone to oil, coolant, and solvent spills:

Absorbent Mats

Multiple industries rely on quality absorbent mats or pads to mitigate employee injuries that result from spilled liquids. Choosing the right industrial absorbent mat for proper spill control depends on the type of application you’re tackling.

Quilted Mats

Quilted mats are an excellent reusable mat choice for thin fluids and “reactive” applications like oil and water, food oil, and coolant spills. Known as a “quick response mat,” quilted mats are highly absorbent, reusable mats that clear multiple types of liquid spills off of your facility floor immediately.

Oil-Absorbent Hydromats

A likely choice for oil-only applications, oil-absorbent hydromats pick up oil spills anywhere on any surface. Oil-absorbent hydromats are also “hydrophobic,” so they repel water and soak up oil only.

Poly Absorbent Mats

Poly absorbent mats are a great spill control solution for everyday use, especially with “proactive” applications. The most versatile absorbent mat on the market, poly absorbent mats soak up three times as much oil as disposable mats and work for any non-hazardous fluid across any industry.

Absorbent Socks

Standard socks only have one section that absorbs liquids, resulting in flipping the sock several times for maximum use. Absorbent sock subs are a reusable alternative and are capable of holding as much liquid as the standard disposable sock. Equipped with an anti-trip design, sock subs handle oil and water-based liquid spills.

A Proprietor for Quality, Reusable Absorbents

Closed Loop Recycling is a proprietor of various high-quality, reusable absorbents, such as absorbent mats and socks. Customers from a wide range of industries consider our mats and socks an everyday necessity for an array of solutions, from keeping floors safe and slip-free to soaking up oil leaks from facility machinery. When you choose CLR for your absorbent mats, all of your material and recycling needs are met by an experienced, single-source vendor.

Our Recycling Process

CLR reused nearly 2 million pounds of solid waste and more than 300,000 gallons of liquid waste in 2020, thanks to our three-step process that we like to call our three P’s:

  • Products
    • We can help you work toward your company’s green initiatives by recycling your rags, mats, towels, and PPE. We are proud to offer the largest line of reusable absorbents in the country!
  • Process
  • Pricing
    • You can simplify your asset and material costs with CLR’s easy, flat-rate bundle pricing.

Choosing the Right Industrial Absorbent With CLR

Many industries count on our recycling services. We’re the recycling experts—no matter what industry you’re in. When you choose CLR, you partner with a vendor that cares about the environment, your budget, and your employees’ safety. Contact us today to learn more about how we can help you choose the right industrial absorbent solutions for your industry needs.