Well, probably you haven't heard of anything of this company,but maybe you can see its products everywhere in your office, classroom, or even museums! What can that name remind you of? An IT company? Something to do with Internet? Well, the answer is NO!
Interface is the world's largest manufacturer of modular carpet. Their carpet tiles are very flexible, which means that you can cut them into any shapes without loosening the fibers of the carpet tiles. They released several collections in different themes. All of them are really finely designed and are made of recyclable materials. Actually, last week, my classmates and I just went to Interface and had a lecture about Interface's suatainable strategy. All of us were deeply impressed by Interface's remarkable approach to sustainability. Interface is not only the one of the companies that applied sustainable strategy into their current and future plans, but also is the only company which was founded because of sustainability. That means the product of Interface,A.K.A, the carpet tiles are only the intermediary of this company in order to promote their ideas of how to make the business case for sustainability.
The speaker showed us different samples in the manufacturing of carpet tiles, including the fibers in the carpets, the polymers, etc. These substances gave us the intuitive overview of the life cycle assessment of Interface. Statistics showed that Interface could recycle 80% of their carpet tiles, and what's more gratifying is that Interface was moving towards the recycle rate to 100%! Who would ever noticed that a single piece of carpet tile may make a dramatic progress in being net positive to the environment!
One of the programs that are on track is that the employees of Interface have created a technology to convert plastic fishing nets into the polymers and make the polymers into carpet tiles! They have released the particular program which calls for the villagers living in areas, where there are tons of broken fishing nets, to gather the wasted nets together so that they could process them easily.
I don't know if there are still other companies that are as committed as Interface. At least Interface is a perfect example of combining sustainability and business together. No matter what reason for a company to apply sustainable strategy, this is undoubtly a global tendency that could be soon spread around all over the world. Anyway, I am looking forward to seeing the big transformation of the enterprises in the near future!
For futher information, please go to http://www.interfaceglobal.com/default.aspx
One of the programs that are on track is that the employees of Interface have created a technology to convert plastic fishing nets into the polymers and make the polymers into carpet tiles! They have released the particular program which calls for the villagers living in areas, where there are tons of broken fishing nets, to gather the wasted nets together so that they could process them easily.
I don't know if there are still other companies that are as committed as Interface. At least Interface is a perfect example of combining sustainability and business together. No matter what reason for a company to apply sustainable strategy, this is undoubtly a global tendency that could be soon spread around all over the world. Anyway, I am looking forward to seeing the big transformation of the enterprises in the near future!
For futher information, please go to http://www.interfaceglobal.com/default.aspx
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