Sustainability Without Compromise
Reusable contamination control built for 24/7 operations.
How Dycem Improves Sustainability
Eliminate daily plastic waste
Reduce CO₂ emissions from manufacturing and transport
Extend replacement cycles from days to years
Support ESG and environmental reporting objectives
The Environmental Problem with Disposables
Traditional contamination control in IT spaces such as sticky mats, comes with serious environmental drawbacks:
Massive plastic waste
peel-away sheets generate daily landfill contributions.
Secondary contaminated waste
often requires incineration, producing harmful emission.
High carbon output
continuous manufacturing, packaging, and shipping of consumables drive up your facility’s footprint.
The Invisible Cost: the Energy Nobody and Everybody is Counting
Every particle tracked in on a shoe that isn’t captured at the door will keep moving through the facility until it has been removed from the facility. It becomes airborne. It settles on coils, heatsinks, and the surfaces your cooling system relies on to move heat. Fouled surfaces transfer heat less efficiently. Fans run harder, cooling works longer, and energy that should be doing compute is spent moving dirt-degraded heat.
That’s the carbon number you can’t see on an invoice, and in AI-dense facilities, the energy consumed by cooling systems over their operating life can represent a far larger environmental impact than disposable floor protection alone.
While Dycem doesn’t replace your air-side filtration. It works upstream of them where it is capturing floor-level particulate at the entry point, before foot traffic turns it into airborne load your mechanical systems have to chase. Fewer particles entering the white space means less burden on every system downstream.
This is also where the energy standards actually connect with sustainability.
Sustainability Through Lifecycle Thinking
Dycem solutions are reusable, long-lasting, and built for deployment in high-traffic transition zones without permanent installation. By replacing sticky mats with Dycem, data centers can:
Eliminate daily plastic waste
No more peeling and discarding multiple sheets per day.
Reduce CO₂ emissions
Fewer manufacturing and transport cycles for delivery and transportation to the landfill.
Support water and energy savings
Mats require minimal cleaning and maintenance.
Extend product lifecycle
Depending on the solution chosen, Dycem products deliver consistent, high-performance results for 12–18 months to 3–5 years before a replacement is needed.
Protects thermal performance
Captures up to 99.9% of floor-level contaminants at the door, before they reach sensitive equipment.
How Quickly Disposable Waste Adds Up
A facility with five entrances using peel-off mats generates significant plastic waste, depending on how often the mats are changed
| Replacement Frequency | Annual Waste | Approx. Annual Waste |
|---|---|---|
| Manufacturer recommendation (3 peels/day) 24 x 30" | 5,475 sheets | 387 lb |
| Once per day | 1,825 sheets | 129 lb |
| Once per week | 260 sheets | 18 lb |
The visible cost: disposable waste
Disposable sticky mats create an endless cycle of manufacturing, shipping, replacement, and landfill waste. In a continuous operation, the impact compounds fast and every part of it lands in your environmental reporting.
Replacing disposable mats with Dycem reusable contamination control reduces hundreds of product deliveries over the life of the system to a single installation, with replacement typically required only every 18 months for Dycem LITE or 3 to 5 years for permanent polymeric solutions.
For a facility operating five entry points, that can mean:
• A vast number of plastic sheets are sent to landfill every year
• Weekly freight cycles to keep those mats in stock
• Ongoing manufacturing emissions for replacement products
• A standing purchase order that grows with every zone you add.
• Recurring purchasing and inventory management
Dycem: Sustainability Without Compromise
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When contamination control is critical, quality matters. Dycem solutions are manufactured under ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 certified processes to ensure consistent performance and long-term reliability. Compliance with REACH and California Proposition 65 reflects our commitment to quality, safety and environmental responsibility.
