Interface Highlights Recent Green Initiatives

Atlanta, GA, April 21, 2011 -- Interface has released information highlighting its recent environmental progress.

Interface President and CEO Dan Hendrix said the company has made advancements in recycling and diverting used products from landfills; cumulative reductions in greenhouse gas emissions; greater transparency in the form of Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs); and educating employees and other stakeholders about the benefits of sustainability.

"By pointing to progress we hope to serve as an example of what innovation and real change can mean for organizations, for future generations and for the environment," Hendrix said.

The company said that 40% of raw materials used were from recycled or bio-based sources and that in the past six years, the percentage of recycled and bio-based raw material use has grown from 4% to 40%.

Its reclamation process diverted 28 million pounds of carpet from landfills in 2010 and since 1995, the ReEntry program has diverted 228 million pounds of carpet and carpet scraps.

Greenhouse gas emissions at manufacturing facilities have been reduced by 35 percent from a 1996 baseline.

The company said it is committed to receiving Environmental Product Declarat4ions on all InterfaceFLOR and Bentley Prince Street products by 2012.

Also, through a project called "Together We Can Reuse It," Interface employees in Thailand demonstrated waste recycling by creating an inventive new purpose for waste yarn -- turning the material into knitted dolls.