Turning Crops into Carpet
By: Kailey Franz
Updated: August 24, 2009
Smart Strand is a carpet composed of fibers produced from corn sugar. Not only is this Smart Strand carpet eco-friendly, its durable and stain resistant. The fibers in the carpet can simply be cleaned with tap water and a cotton towel.
The production of this material requires less energy and produces fewer greenhouse gas emissions than current nylon carpet. For every seven yards of Smart Strand carpet produced one gallon of gasoline is saved.
So far Smart Strand has outlasted and outperformed it's competitors.


