INTERFACE FAQs

Each product’s embodied carbon footprint is listed under Health & Environmental Specifications on the product detail page within our website.[CN1] [VL2] 

You can also use the Interface Carbon Calculator to view cradle‑to‑gate carbon data for any of our flooring products. The self-serve tool is simple to use and includes the following:

• Automatic calculations for flooring type, style, and quantity
• A one-page downloadable Carbon Impact Statement (CIS) for projects
• A comparison chart showing the carbon footprint of Interface products alongside the industry-average carbon footprint
• Complete data transparency
• Visual references of emission equivalents avoided (e.g. cars not driven)

For more detailed disclosures, each product also has a third‑party verified Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) and a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) summary that reports its carbon footprint in kilograms of CO₂‑equivalent.

A carbon negative product stores more carbon than is emitted during its creation, when measured cradle to gate. At Interface, we achieve carbon negative carpet tiles by replacing higher‑footprint raw materials with low carbon and carbon‑storing alternatives, including bio‑based and captured‑carbon inputs.

Our carbon negative products

Interface created the world’s first cradle‑to‑gate carbon negative carpet tile in 2020. Today, we offer hundreds of carpet tile styles that can be carbon negative when paired with our CQuestBioX™ backing. The products meet the same performance requirements with a carbon negative footprint.

In 2025, we unveiled the industry’s first carbon negative nora® rubber flooring prototype, which also stores more carbon than it emits during manufacturing.

Our carbon negative ambition

To meet the urgency of the climate crisis, we’re focusing on absolute carbon reduction and carbon storage innovation across all of our product categories. And challenging ourselves and others to become carbon negative, without offsets. 

Since 1994, we’ve focused on reducing our environmental footprint—an effort that led us to eliminate our negative impact in 2019. Today, we’re pushing further with a goal to become carbon negative by 2040. Our 2030 science-based targets (SBTs), validated by the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi), serve as an important waypoint on our path.

We’re making progress by lowering our carbon footprint through better design, with lower-carbon raw materials, and ongoing innovation across our product categories. Since 2019, we’ve made measurable progress across our portfolio:

• Carpet tile carbon footprint is down 40%
• LVT carbon footprint is down 45%
• Rubber carbon footprint is down 24%

These reductions reflect how we’re designing products to use less material, last longer, and reduce impact across the full life cycle. By increasing the use of recycled, bio-based, and captured-carbon materials, we continue to lower embodied carbon across our products.

The result? Flooring with some of the lowest carbon footprints in the commercial flooring industry—and continued progress on our path to carbon negative.

Interface uses independent, third‑party verified tools and transparent reporting to back every carbon negative claim. We conduct third‑party verified Life Cycle Assessments (LCAs) to measure the carbon footprint of our products and publish Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) that disclose this data using globally recognized standards.

External verifiers confirm our LCAs, EPDs, recycled content, and carbon‑storing material claims. We also share our progress openly through our annual Impact Reports.

In the past, Interface purchased offsets and was third-party verified as a carbon neutral enterprise. Today we’re focused on prioritizing direct carbon reductions—not offsets—to meet the urgency of the climate crisis. We’re ‘all in’ on becoming carbon negative by 2040 and redirecting former carbon offset investments into projects that accelerate carbon reduction and storage. 

You can explore Interface’s carbon negative journey on our sustainability page and view our annual Impact Report for details on our progress toward becoming carbon negative. Plus, follow along with our sustainability journey on Instagram and LinkedIn. 

Bio-based materials come from renewable sources like plant-derived polymers. Interface uses bio-based materials to replace more carbon-intensive, petroleum-based ingredients in products like carpet tile backings and rubber flooring. This helps reduce overall product carbon footprints and, in some cases, contributes to carbon storage.