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Interface was the first North American flooring manufacturer to publish a third party verified Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) in 2009 and the first flooring manufacturer to publish EPDs for all standard products globally in 2012. Now, 99% of Interface products globally, including all standard carpet and resilient flooring styles, have a product-specific EPD.
Why EPDs Matter
An EPD provides credible information on the material flows and environmental impacts that happen during the entire life of a product. It’s similar to the ingredient and nutrition labels on food, but an EPD shows things like raw material extraction, energy use, emissions to air, soil and water, and water use and waste generation.
Product Carbon Footprints
Given the climate crisis, the most urgent EPD data to understand is Global Warming Potential (GWP), also known as a product’s carbon footprint. Comparing these numbers across products will help you understand how much carbon each product will contribute to a project. The lower the carbon footprint, the better for the planet.
It is possible for building products to achieve dramatic reductions in their Embodied Carbon emissions by using EPD data and tools that include EPD data like the Embodied Carbon in Construction Calculator (EC3) Tool to select low-carbon products.
LEED Certification
For customers seeking LEED certification for their buildings, using EPDs to disclose and reduce our impacts allows our products to contribute to several LEED credits, including the Building Product Disclosure and Optimization points for Environmental Product Declaration (option 1) and LCA/Embodied Carbon Optimization (option 2).
Transparency & Validation
Companies must commit to fully disclose what is usually confidential information about how products are made. In addition, companies must perform a comprehensive life cycle assessment according to ISO 14040 and 14044 standards.
From this information, an Environmental Product Declaration is developed based on ISO 14025 standards. Both the EPD and the LCA are third-party verified.
Why EPDs Matter
An EPD provides credible information on the material flows and environmental impacts that happen during the entire life of a product. It’s similar to the ingredient and nutrition labels on food, but an EPD shows things like raw material extraction, energy use, emissions to air, soil and water, and water use and waste generation.
Product Carbon Footprints
Given the climate crisis, the most urgent EPD data to understand is Global Warming Potential (GWP), also known as a product’s carbon footprint. Comparing these numbers across products will help you understand how much carbon each product will contribute to a project. The lower the carbon footprint, the better for the planet.
It is possible for building products to achieve dramatic reductions in their Embodied Carbon emissions by using EPD data and tools that include EPD data like the Embodied Carbon in Construction Calculator (EC3) Tool to select low-carbon products.
LEED Certification
For customers seeking LEED certification for their buildings, using EPDs to disclose and reduce our impacts allows our products to contribute to several LEED credits, including the Building Product Disclosure and Optimization points for Environmental Product Declaration (option 1) and LCA/Embodied Carbon Optimization (option 2).
Transparency & Validation
Companies must commit to fully disclose what is usually confidential information about how products are made. In addition, companies must perform a comprehensive life cycle assessment according to ISO 14040 and 14044 standards.
From this information, an Environmental Product Declaration is developed based on ISO 14025 standards. Both the EPD and the LCA are third-party verified.
