Bentley Prince Street Wins Conservation Award

City of Industry, CA , January 7, 2008 – For the fifth consecutive year, Bentley Prince Street has been recognized for its efforts to reduce waste and conserve resources as a winner of the Waste Reduction Awards Program (WRAP) award.

Sponsored by the California Integrated Waste Management Board, the state’s leading authority on recycling and waste reduction, the WRAP Awards recognize California companies for their commitment to a range of environmentally preferable business programs, including resource-efficient practices and innovative waste reduction, reuse and recycling achievements.

“At Bentley Prince Street, just as we have our own Mission Zero goal of eliminating our potential negative impact on the environment by the year 2020, we’re equally committed to helping move California toward a zero-waste future,” said Anthony Minite, president of Bentley Prince Street.

Since 1994, the company has achieved a number of other significant environmental milestones:

Made 100% of its electrical energy requirements renewable;

Reduced waste sent to landfill by 95 percent;

Reduced net absolute greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 75 percent;

Reduced water intake by 71 percent;

Reduced overall energy use by 57 percent;

Reduced NOx by 36 percent.

Bentley Prince Street’s California mill also was the first carpet manufacturing facility in the country to receive a silver rating from the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Green Building Rating System for Existing Buildings.