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Carbon Neutral Floors™
Design with the climate in mind
Global warming impacts everyone. Interface Carbon Neutral Floors™ help you lower your carbon footprint with one positive step.
The flooring products that we sell – carpet tile, LVT, and nora rubber sheets and tiles – are carbon neutral across their full product life cycle. And we calculate your floor’s credentials so you can see its exact contribution to reducing global warming.
When you design and spec 1,000 square yards of Interface flooring, you offset the equivalent carbon emissions of nine round-trip flights between New York and Paris.
Explore all our carbon neutral products.
The flooring products that we sell – carpet tile, LVT, and nora rubber sheets and tiles – are carbon neutral across their full product life cycle. And we calculate your floor’s credentials so you can see its exact contribution to reducing global warming.
When you design and spec 1,000 square yards of Interface flooring, you offset the equivalent carbon emissions of nine round-trip flights between New York and Paris.
Explore all our carbon neutral products.
Our journey to
carbon neutral floors
We know the impact our flooring has on our planet—whether carpet tile, LVT or rubber. And we’ve been leading the way to reduce the carbon footprint of our products for more than two decades.
We introduced our Cool Carpet™ program in 2002 and began offsetting the full life cycle of greenhouse gas emissions for carpet tiles across North and South America.
We’ve continued to do this with our LVT as well, resulting in the offset of more than 4.3 million tons of carbon dioxide since 2002. We’ve also reduced the greenhouse gas emissions of our manufacturing by 96% and reduced the carbon footprint of our carpet tile by over 60%—the lowest in the industry. And now we're including all nora by Interface products, as well.
We introduced our Cool Carpet™ program in 2002 and began offsetting the full life cycle of greenhouse gas emissions for carpet tiles across North and South America.
We’ve continued to do this with our LVT as well, resulting in the offset of more than 4.3 million tons of carbon dioxide since 2002. We’ve also reduced the greenhouse gas emissions of our manufacturing by 96% and reduced the carbon footprint of our carpet tile by over 60%—the lowest in the industry. And now we're including all nora by Interface products, as well.
Embodied carbon
For any building it’s not just heating and cooling buildings that adds
to carbon emissions, but also the materials and processes used to create them. And that includes flooring products. So, reducing this embodied carbon is the most urgent challenge of all.
We have achieved this by:Changing how we design and make things, reducing the footprint of our carpet tile by over 60%
Balancing what we still can't avoid with carbon offsets that support renewable energy, fuel switching and reforestation to keep carbon in nature and out of the atmosphere
We have achieved this by:
Supporting a climate fit for life
Carbon Neutral Floors allows us to support a range of projects that are also working toward fostering a climate fit for life. Here are a few projects we’re supporting:
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Our support in protecting native pine and bottomland hardwood forests not only prevents the release of tonnes of sequestered carbon, but also helps maintain habitats adjacent to a national wildlife refuge. Photo: Nicole Melancon
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In a number of countries, we are supporting fuel switching and water purification projects, tackling carbon emissions alongside human health and community empowerment. Photo: Natural Capital Partners
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We support the growth of renewable energy solutions in developing countries (including solar, wind and hydro technology) to ensure we can help reduce the amount of carbon emissions entering the atmosphere. Photo: South Pole
Join the Climate Take Back
We’ve committed to running our business in a way that reverses global warming and creates a climate fit for life—and we call on others to do the same. Offering Carbon Neutral Floors represents our next step toward a Climate Take Back.