There are several retail companies that offer tile with recycled content. In some cases this the product of a process in which the company's own post-industrial tile body scrap is recycled into a specific product line. In other cases, companies mix another post industrial material, such as mining waste or auto windshield glass, with clay to produce a tile with recycled content. These ceramic tile products are the recycled tile most widely available on a national scale.
There are also tiles made from recycled post-consumer container glass available in some markets. These tiles tend to be produced in small batches, in studio settings, which causes them to be expensive. The recycled glass tiles are seldom used as floor tiles because of their cost, although they may be used as an accent in combination with a field of less-expensive tile.
Bottom line:
Tiles with recycled content can be relatively resource efficient, but it is important to evaluate the source of the recycled material and how much of the tile mass it constitutes, in conjunction with the distance that the product must travel from the manufacturing location to the job site.
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