Method of recycling carpet forming components from waste carpet

A method of recycling carpet forming components from waste carpet, said carpet forming components including fibrous material and backing material, said method comprising:

• feeding pieces of said waste carpet to a shredder for providing shredded, small waste carpet pieces;
• subjecting said small waste carpet pieces to a granulating process wherein said small waste carpet pieces are ground into separated fibrous material and separated backing material;
• conveying said separated fibrous material and said separated backing material in a common airstream to a separator;
• separating said fibrous material from said backing material in said separator by providing a second airstream containing generally only said fibrous material and a third airstream containing generally only said backing material;
• directing said second airstream to deliver said separated fibrous material to a fiber storage for subsequent processing;
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• directing said third airstream containing said backing material to deliver said backing material for further processing.