J+J Gets Zero Waste to Landfill Certification

Dalton, GA, June 8, 2015 -- J+J Flooring Group said it has been certified as a Zero Waste to Landfill manufacturer by GreenCircle Certified LLC., a third-party certifier of environmental claims.

The company said it is the first commercial flooring manufacturer in the U.S. to achieve the landfill-free status. It also said it is the first company in the industry to have its waste diversion efforts audited and verified by a recognized, third-party certifier of environmental claims.  

J+J said it quit sending any material directly to the landfill last August.

From now on, any waste at J+J’s Dalton campus that cannot be recycled, reused or repurposed -- approximately two percent of its total waste -- will be sent to Covanta, the country’s largest energy-from-waste operator.

Covanta will use the material to help provide steam power to the Redstone Arsenal, a U.S. Army garrison that services a number of tenants including the Army Materiel Command, the Missile Defense Agency of the Department of Defense and NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center.

The certification included a material flow analysis of J+J’s Dalton campus as well as a review of its downstream material management organizations receiving J+J’s waste.