Carpet tiles that reduce your carbon footprint | Ep. #55

<p>Today we bring to you a phenomenal example --&gt; <a href="https://www.interface.com/IN/en-IN/campaign/climate-take-back/carbon-neutral-floors-en_IN">Interface Inc.</a></p> <p>Did you know that over ninety percent of all of the carpet made today is made up of synthetic fiber...that is nylon, polypropylene or polyester.</p> <p>Now nylon, polypropylene &amp; polyester are raw materials derived from the oil &amp; gas industry. So you can understand how crucial it is for the world to make this supply chain circular because Oil &amp; Gas is a non-renewable industry.</p> <p>Good news is that an individual &amp; visionary by the name <a href="https://www.interface.com/IN/en-IN/sustainability/our-history-en_IN">Ray C. Anderson, founder and former chairman of Interface Inc.</a> led his company and people on a path to Mission Zero® with a pledge to reduce their negative impact on the environment in the year 1994. Yes, more than 2 decades ago.</p> <p>He was moved after he read a book by Paul Hawkins. That book affected him so deeply that he went to the office the next day and challenged his senior executives to make their business sustainable!</p> <p>If Ray Anderson can do that in 1995 then our generation has no right to make excuses towards climate action today.</p> <p>Since then Interface carpets have been redesigning and reshaping their processes, their thinking and their whole business to try and achieve sustainability by 2020.</p> <p>Their machine that they like to call “Cool Green” separates the reclaimed materials from used carpets → turns it into pellets→ then homogenized powdered form which then is mixed with Bitumen compounds and recycled limestone to turn it into new carpets!</p> <p>Interface carpets have radically changed entire business practices- influenced the industry by reducing dependency on petro-chemicals and minimized their carbon footprint.</p> <p>Their Cool green technology has evolved over the years and now forms a part of all their factories and business processes around the globe. Their carpets