aving the planet does not have to be a pipe
dream anymore. With InterfaceFLOR carpets,
you can do your bit to help transform your
school and the Earth.
A LOAD OF GARBAGE
Where do you think our garbage ends up? In large
holes in the ground known as landfills. And floor
coverings are one of the culprits. They take up lots
of space in landfills and often take a long time to
disintegrate. Besides, they create a lot of waste
during manufacturing and installation, while many
are often discarded before the end of their useful
life. Which makes it all the more important to
reduce carpet waste.
Recognising that our products affect the
environment, InterfaceFLOR came up with a
sustainability road map called Mission Zero™
– with resource efficiency and elimination of
waste topmost of our priorities. Through
Mission Zero, we hope to eliminate
any negative impact we have on the
environment by 2020. And this
spurs us on to introduce various
sustainability initiatives to
reduce our waste.
Our i2™ non-directional
carpet tiles is a good
example. As the first non-
directional carpet tile made
with mergeable dye lots, it is
able to seamlessly combine
tiles manufactured at different
times with no noticeable difference,
thus reducing waste during installation and
reconfiguration. Statistically, it reduces wastage
to 1.5 per cent, compared with conventional
broadloom carpeting that contributes 13.9 per cent
of waste per installation.
What’s more, we aim to eliminate all forms
of waste from our processes. Less raw material
harvested, fewer materials used during production
and less energy used to do so – these are just
some ways we have cleaned up our act. Since
1996, our total energy usage has fallen by 45 per
cent, and water intake per square metre of carpet
tile production is down by 87 per cent. And we’re
not planning to stop any time soon.
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