The brand said although the make up of the material has not been changed, it is now the "world's first" carbon-negative linoleum across the full product life cycle due to the creation of a closed loop system.
It has now implemented a closed-loop system that has three key stages. First it manufactures linoleum using materials that absorb carbon dioxide as they grow, as well as 100 per cent recirculated industrial water and 100 per cent renewable electricity at its factory in Narni, Italy.
Tarkett has been creating linoleum using the same recipe since 1898 - a mix of 97 per cent natural and renewable materials including cork, wood powder, pine rosin and linseed oil. The remaining three per cent is made up of colour pigments and surface protection.
Next, the brand installs the linoleum, ensuring that any scraps or offcuts are returned to Tarkett and used to make additional flooring.
Finally, at the end of the material's expected 30-year lifespan, Tarkett collects post-consumer linoleum and returns it to the brand's factory in Narni, where it is broken down and used to make new flooring.
"Within our current 'take, make, waste' economy, materials generally move in one direction, extracted from finite resources, transformed into products and discarded once they are no longer needed," said Tarkett vice president Thomas Leneveu.
"The solution to this issue is a closed-loop system, where materials are habitually returned at the end of their useful life to be broken down, recycled and turned into new materials in an endless closed-loop system," he told Dezeen.
Leneveu said that Tarkett calculates and externally verifies its flooring's "circular carbon footprint" to keep track of the carbon it generates and saves.
The vice president said that one of the key challenges is incentivising consumers to return flooring to Tarkett at the end of its life, while it is still "so much cheaper and easier" to send materials to landfill.
"Regulation can play a key role in helping to make circularity the default option," considered Leneveu, who encouraged manufacturers to work together to ensure that closed-loop systems are as accessible as possible.
Designers are constantly finding new ways to rethink linoleum, from furniture by design school graduates to tiles that can be remodelled "like playdough".