All floors do. Since vinyl is made from petroleum, off-gassing is a concern, but that does not last very long. And vinyl is difficult to recycle.
But engineered wood and laminate and carpet also are hard or impossible to recycle. Even "natural" materials like wood and ceramic and stone have environmental concerns; particularly stone, which often has to be transported thousands of miles from where it's quarried to where it is finished and installed and sometimes requires sealants which present their own environmental issues.
It's a matter of deciding which factors are most important to you in selecting a floor.
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome. - Booker T. Washington
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