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Shaw has been working for years on innovative ways of reducing waste, improving our manufacturing processes, and preserving our natural resources. Our many innovations and initiatives are collectively known as the Shaw Green Edge. It may take generations to reach completely sustainable solutions, but it's important to make improvements every day to reduce negative environmental impacts. Below are just a few of the initiatives that demonstrate significant progress. To learn more about these and other Shaw Green Edge initiatives, visit shawgreenedge.com Perhaps the most innovative of Shaw's technologies is our waste-to-energy project at Plant 81 in Dalton, Georgia.At this plant, we convert carpet and wood waste to steam energy through gasification. It doesnt actually burn the waste in the traditional sense. It super-heats it to allow synthetic gas to be released while it leaves most pollutants, like carbon, nitrogen, and sulphur, in the ash instead of the air. The process even removes the tiny particles of ash that can contribute to poor air quality. The emissions we end up with are about the same as those we get from clean-burning natural gas. The process produces energy that would otherwise come from fossil fuels, sends less solid waste to landfills, and saves over 2.5 million gallons of fuel oil a year in this one manufacturing facility. Epic hardwood's 3/8" thick hardwood products use approximately 50 % less newly forested wood than the conventional 3/8" engineered alternatives. Epic hardwood's 3/4" products utilize 67 % less first generation forest production than is required for comparable solid wood flooring. Shaw Transport, Inc., Shaw Industries trucking fleet, has been accepted into the U.S. Environmental Protection Agencys SmartWay Transport Partner program. The SmartWay program is a voluntary collaboration between the EPA and the freight industry designed to increase energy efficiency while significantly reducing greenhouse gases and air pollution Shaw has reduced carpet tile packaging by 98% by replacing two-part boxes with cardboard sleeves surrounded by shrink wrap. Shaw makes Endurance II carpet cushion with 100% recycled materials, using approximately 25 million pounds of waste in its production each year. Additionally, Endurance II was the first carpet pad to be tested and accepted into the Carpet and Rug Institute's "Green Label" Air Quality Testing and Labeling Program. In cooperation with local plastic wrap suppliers, Shaw recycles the plastic used to protect new carpet during transport into a wide variety of products, including trash bags, packing material, and automotive parts. We've partnered with a number of recycling companies to establish a collection network throughout the country. Check out the map that indicates where we expect to collect as much as 300 million pounds of carpet waste annually. Shaw's revolutionary Evergreen Nylon Recycling facility in Augusta, Georgia, is recycling Nylon 6 carpets back into the raw material that we use to make new carpets. It's the kind of endless cycle we call cradle-to-cradle, and Shaw believes it is the path to true sustainability. The Shaw Green Edge is about real environmental progress that results in positive environmental, economic, and social impacts. To learn more about these and other Shaw Green Edge initiatives, visit shawgreenedge.com	* Since we began measuring in 2003, we are now meeting a world-class overall energy reduction rate of 3% per year. Evergreen Nylon Recycling helps to save enough energy to run thousands of homes each year. Our post-consumer collection system keeps up to 300 million pounds of carpet from landfills each year.

Shaw has been working for years on innovative ways of reducing waste, improving our manufacturing processes, and preserving our natural resources. Our many innovations and initiatives are collectively known as the Shaw Green Edge.

It may take generations to reach completely sustainable solutions, but it's important to make improvements every day to reduce negative environmental impacts. Below are just a few of the initiatives that demonstrate significant progress. To learn more about these and other Shaw Green Edge initiatives, visit shawgreenedge.com

Perhaps the most innovative of Shaw's technologies is our waste-to-energy project at Plant 81 in Dalton, Georgia.At this plant, we convert carpet and wood waste to steam energy through gasification. It doesnt actually burn the waste in the traditional sense. It super-heats it to allow synthetic gas to be released while it leaves most pollutants, like carbon, nitrogen, and sulphur, in the ash instead of the air. The process even removes the tiny particles of ash that can contribute to poor air quality. The emissions we end up with are about the same as those we get from clean-burning natural gas. The process produces energy that would otherwise come from fossil fuels, sends less solid waste to landfills, and saves over 2.5 million gallons of fuel oil a year in this one manufacturing facility.

Epic hardwood's 3/8" thick hardwood products use approximately 50 % less newly forested wood than the conventional 3/8" engineered alternatives. Epic hardwood's 3/4" products utilize 67 % less first generation forest production than is required for comparable solid wood flooring.

Shaw Transport, Inc., Shaw Industries trucking fleet, has been accepted into the U.S. Environmental Protection Agencys SmartWay Transport Partner program. The SmartWay program is a voluntary collaboration between the EPA and the freight industry designed to increase energy efficiency while significantly reducing greenhouse gases and air pollution

Shaw has reduced carpet tile packaging by 98% by replacing two-part boxes with cardboard sleeves surrounded by shrink wrap.

Shaw makes Endurance II carpet cushion with 100% recycled materials, using approximately 25 million pounds of waste in its production each year. Additionally, Endurance II was the first carpet pad to be tested and accepted into the Carpet and Rug Institute's "Green Label" Air Quality Testing and Labeling Program.

In cooperation with local plastic wrap suppliers, Shaw recycles the plastic used to protect new carpet during transport into a wide variety of products, including trash bags, packing material, and automotive parts.

We've partnered with a number of recycling companies to establish a collection network throughout the country. Check out the map that indicates where we expect to collect as much as 300 million pounds of carpet waste annually.

Shaw's revolutionary Evergreen Nylon Recycling facility in Augusta, Georgia, is recycling Nylon 6 carpets back into the raw material that we use to make new carpets. It's the kind of endless cycle we call cradle-to-cradle, and Shaw believes it is the path to true sustainability.

The Shaw Green Edge is about real environmental progress that results in positive environmental, economic, and social impacts. To learn more about these and other Shaw Green Edge initiatives, visit shawgreenedge.com

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