Shaw & J+J Win Coosa River Basin Initiative Greenie Awards

Rome, GA, March 3, 2016—The Coosa River Basin Initiative (CRBI) has named two flooring businesses among the winners of its second annual Greenie Awards. The winners will be recognized April 14 at the organization’s Green Gala.

Dalton-based Shaw Industries will be honored for the company’s efforts in water conservation. Since 2006, the company has reduced water use in its manufacturing processes by 31% and has a goal of achieving total reductions of 50% within the next 14 years. This effort has reduced water withdrawals from area rivers and streams and reduced the amount of wastewater discharged to these same water bodies.

CRBI’s Sustainability Greenie will go to J & J Flooring Group. In 2015, the maker of modular carpet and textile composite flooring became the first carpet manufacturer to be certified as a zero waste-to-landfill manufacturer. The company’s 750 employees recycle and reuse carpet scraps on site, and even the small amount of waste the company produces is sent to a Huntsville, Alabama waste-to-energy facility where it is burned to create steam energy.

The awards recognize extraordinary efforts to protect and preserve natural resources in the upper Coosa River basin of northwest Georgia and northeast Alabama in the fields of outdoor recreation, land protection, water conservation, sustainability and innovation.

The Green Gala is scheduled for April 14 at Barnsley Gardens Resort in Adairsville. For more information on the event, visit www.coosa.org.

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