If you have attended 2010 Winter Olympic in Vancouver, Canada, you have seen them. The look and feel of Vancouver 2010 winter games is partly due to the large format graphics (Huge stickers) that 3M has developed. Stickers are composed of layer materials such as polymer films, adhesives, and ink. They are everywhere decorating VANOC's buildings (the Richmond Olympic Oval and the Pacific Coliseum), numerous vehicles, buses, ice resurfacing machines etc. Technology does not stop here.
Mannigton Commercial plans to recycle all these sticky graphics (trash) to flooring tiles (treasure). It is estimated Mannigton will incorporate about 200,000 square feet of 3M's large format graphics from the 2010 winter games in Canada into Premium Flooring Tiles diverting it from the landfill sites.
[Ref: http://solutions.3mcanada.ca/wps/portal/3M/en_CA/Olympics/Home/ , Press Releases, Ontario, Feb. 18, 2010 and Mannigton Commercial, Calhoun, Georgia, Feb. 18, 2010]
