All Bentley Prince Street Products Carbon Neutral

City of Industry, CA, February 4, 2008 – Bentley Prince Street said that all its products are now carbon neutral.

The company's Cool Carpet program is now standard on all of its broadloom and carpet tile products. Through the expanded program, every company product will now be third-party certified as carbon neutral, with zero net greenhouse gases (GHG) emitted during the entire life cycle. Expanding this program to all products is Bentley Prince Street’s latest step toward its Mission Zero goal of eliminating any negative impact it has on the environment by the year 2020.

“Climate change is a significant issue for all of us, with consequences already evident across the globe," said Bentley Street Prince President Anthony Minite.

"Making all our products climate neutral is just one way we’re working to address this issue, and make it easy for our customers to participate in balancing the GHG emissions of their projects and join in the fight against global warming.”

Bentley Prince Street’s Cool Carpet program is designed to offset the impact of global warming of the carpet by using Life Cycle analysis to measure the CO2 emissions from its raw materials, manufacture, transport, use and maintenance and end-of-life disposition. Once the emissions are measured, Bentley Prince Street invests in a diverse portfolio of offset projects that meet stringent internal and third-party criteria for quality and credibility, and are designed to keep an equal amount of carbon dioxide from being released in the atmosphere as well as broaden the market for alternative energy.

This new initiative is the latest step in Bentley Prince Street’s aggressive environmental sustainability programs. Since 1996, the company has reduced absolute GHG emissions, which are the primary contributor to global warming, by 70 percent.