" -And joining us now is Heather Sheehan and Scott Lintz from AlliedSignal, which makes the fiber for the carpet, right?"

" -That's right."

" -Okay."

" -We will work closely with the first lady here to select carpet for the private living quarters and the office areas. And she had a couple of key points that she wanted to make about the selection. One was that she wants a very high quality carpet. "

" -Nice deep pile, yeah?"

" -Right. Excellent carpet. The other thing that was important to her was the environmental aspects of the carpet. She wanted it to be environmentally friendly. So a couple of things that we did with her on working on that were looked at how it would affect the air quality. So we selected an Anso nylon carpet to ensure that there wouldn't be any impact on the air quality for the people living here."

" -There's absolutely no outgassing or any danger like that with Anso?"

" -None at all and especially with an area where there's no issue about chemicals being used in installation process."

" -It's not being glued down or tacked down and the pad is not a synthetic pad so you don't have to worry about any kind of allergic reactions."

" -That's absolutely correct. The other key thing about this from an environmental standpoint is the recyclability of the carpet. "

" -Oh yeah."

" -This carpet is completely recyclable. It will never see a landfill when they go to renovate the governor's mansion again."

" -And in fact, Scott, it's made from recycled carpet, right?"

" -Yes it is."

" -The fiber that these carpets are made from originated some place else. They were already used once before. How does that work?"

" -Well, to start off we have to identify the waste carbon."

" -And this is a scrap of some of the old carpet that was here in the mansion, right?"

" -Yes. There are over two billion pounds of this stuff ends up landfills every year. We have devised a technology to sort this carpet in the fill and identified if it's nylon 6 recyclable."

" -So this basically is an infrared tester and it if it's nylon 6, what do you do with it?"

" -We bale it off and ship it down to our facility in Augustine, Georgia where it will be recycled to our process."

" -So the process involves the shredding it all up."

" -We take whole bales and dump them into the shredder and through deep polymerization, it comes out as caprolactam."

" -Thank you. Let's talk about how it's bound on the edges. Now this is a 5-sided room. That's why we got a kind of a custom area rug and Eric Albert is, you're hand binding it, right?"

" -Yes. What we do here is we bring in the rug already bound all the way around the sides."

" -Uh huh."

" -And since this room does have an angle on it, we cut the angle on site to make sure we got the angle correct."

" -That's important, there's a nice 12-inch border of exposed wood floor around the whole perimeter."

" -Exactly and what we do after we cut the angle, I set here in it and hand bind this on site. One advantage to hand binding is you don't see the stitching that you would have on machine bind."

" -Okay and so you stapled the, that is just cotton?"

" -Exactly. That's inch and a quarter wide cotton binding."

" -And then what do you do?"

" -And then we flip it over. Take a little bit of latex here."

" -Latex glue?"

" -Latex adhesive. The same thing they used on the backing of this carpet. "

" -Uh huh."

" -It's a latex-based adhesive. Once we glue it over like that and we have the finished edge."

" -And then you have that nice edge."

" -Nice finish."

" -Absolutely. And you got to do that around the whole perimeter rug."

" -Exactly. If you have a hearth the room, we can cut it fit right around the hearth."

" -So that's how they do that. Excellent."