Shaw Industries announces new environmental policy to drive manufacturing processes
Shaw Industries Inc., a Berkshire Hathaway company and the world's largest carpet manufacturer, has adopted an unprecedented new environmental policy, committing the company's carpet manufacturing processes to follow nature's organic cycle of renewal.
The policy commits Shaw to
developing sustainable carpet products that can be continually broken down
and reused again -- returning carpet to carpet through closed-loop or "cradle-to- cradle" recycling. Rather than using traditional approaches that recycle used carpet into other products that could eventually end up in a landfill, the company will utilize this progressive approach to maintain
continuous responsibility for its product material.