“Carlsbad currently has over 1,212,000 square feet of plastic grass carpet in its schools and parks,” which has resulted in the annual run-off of hundreds of thousands of pounds of microplastics.

On Aug. 1, The Home Depot subsidiary HD Supply closed its acquisition of Houston, Texas-based flooring supplier Redi Carpet. Redi Carpet is a next-day flooring installer, focused exclusively on ...

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