Description
The purpose of this Standard is to provide a market-based definition for a path to sustainable carpet, toestablish performance requirements for public health and environment, and to address the triple bottomline, economic-environmental-social, throughout the supply chain.
The goals of this Standard are to:
- increase the economic value of sustainable carpet throughout the supply chain by enhancingmarket demand for sustainable carpet products;
- provide information that enables specifiers to sort out the complex information on sustainabilityattributes;
- identify other consensus-based standards relevant to sustainable carpet;
- educate and instruct all stakeholders in the carpet supply chain; and
- encourage competition between manufacturers and their suppliers to seek out or developenvironmentally preferable processes, practices, power sources, and materials.
Product Details
- Published:
- 11/08/2009
- ANSI:
- ANSI Approved
- Number of Pages:
- 50
- File Size:
- 1 file , 850 KB
