1.   An old carpet can be treated, but choose a reputable company to do it.

2.   He knew the smell that came from dust and stale cigarette-smoke, from shoes and overcoats and old stained carpets.

3.   So keep up the heat in your compost heap by covering it with black plastic sheets, old carpets or sacking.

4.   Strips of old carpet had been laid down in rows, like pews.

5.   An American company, Collins and Aikman, has developed a method of grinding up old carpets to produce synthetic wood.

6.   Among other tips, they suggest a chemical- free way to kill weeds is to use old carpet.

7.   Alsace newspapers said that a walker in Ostheim found what he thought was an old carpet in some bushes.

8.   But even old emissionless carpets can provide a hiding place for all sorts of tiny biological nasties.