In September 2015, CalRecycle found Carpet America Recovery Effort's (CARE, the carpet stewardship organization for California's carpet EPR program) 2014 Annual Report "noncompliant because it did not demonstrate continuous and meaningful improvements toward achievement of Program goals." CalRecycle held a public meeting on October 20 to consider CARE's second addendum to their California carpet stewardship plan. The August/September issue of Floor Focus Magazine quoted CARE that in 2014, total gross carpet collections were 494 million pounds and 45% of that went to landfill. The flooring industry magazine also described CARE and its Voluntary Stewardship Program outside of California, the challenges in current markets for recycled nylon, the case for upcycling carpet-derived fiber, and the proposed tactic of back-labeling carpet by fiber type.