J+J Participated in Alliance for Innovation and Sustainability Event

Dalton, GA, February 1, 2016—J+J Flooring Group recently participated in the Alliance for Innovation and Sustainability’s “Zero Waste Strategies” event at Dalton State College on January 28.

J+J director of sustainability Russ Delozier delivered a presentation titled, “A Journey of 1,000 Miles Starts…How J+J Achieved Zero Waste to Landfill Certification.” Delozier was the featured speaker along with Joel Murphy, Mohawk Industries’ director of global waste stream management. Murphy presented, “The Journey to Zero Waste.”

J+J is the first commercial flooring manufacturer in the United States to achieve zero landfill free status and have its waste diversion efforts audited and verified by a recognized, third-party certifier of environmental claims, GreenCircle, LLC. The company received its certification in June 2015.

Through effective use of recycling, repurposing and reusing, J+J Flooring Group diverted 4.2 million pounds of waste material from landfill in 2014.

Any industrial debris that cannot be recycled, repurposed or reused is sent to the company’s energy recovery partner, Covanta.