Ever wonder about the end-life of all of the products that are manufactured for the American market? Well, more and more products are recycled. Take, for instance, Empire Today. This company, with its Empire Carpet line, participates with a program called Carpet America Recovery Effort (CARE) and Carpet Landfill Elimination And Recycling (CLEAR). Working with these programs, Empire Today processes 100% of all the recyclable carpet and padding that its installers remove from their residential, small business, and commercial customer floors. From the perspective of being environmentally responsible, this is a great leap from how businesses used to operate. Such efforts set an excellent example of how much is in fact doable in terms of treating our environment with greater care for the sake of future generations. It's great to see that our need for manufactured goods in order to meet our demands for consumption is now taken more closely full circle to assuring a responsible end for those manufactured goods. Recycling is in itself also an extremely viable business sector in the U.S., and is continuing to increase as such. This is an important evolution to our economic cycle, which not only addresses vital environmental issues, but also creates more jobs, which ultimately contributes to sustaining our economic viability.