Recycling and Reclamation

Our product solutions and environmental initiatives are changing the industry for the better.

Welcome to the Shaw Green Edge

The Shaw Green Edge™ defines our sustainability business platform to drive business performance, innovation, growth and productivity.
Welcome to the Shaw Green Edge.

Shaw Global Perspective

Here you'll find the conservation and sustainability initiatives that demonstrate our commitment to the world we live in.
Global Perspective.

Shaw Transportation and Packing

These green initiatives show how we constantly adjust our practices to increase efficiencies.
Shaw Transportation and Packing.

True Sustainability

Shaw is committed to sustainability through a process we call cradle-to-cradle? which means we've developed fibers and backing that are uniquely able to be recycled back into more fiber and backing again and again. Carpet to carpet, not carpet to landfill.

Fiber

PC / QC fibers are durable, solution-dyed Type 6 nylon backed by strong warranties. Plus they're gratifyingly green—100% recyclable: At Shaw's Evergreen Recycling facility, nylon 6 fiber is recycled back into fiber, over and over, without loss of color or quality. See our fibers here.

Backing

Our performance backing does more than simplify pattern matching, make installation easier, and extend the life of your carpet. It has 40% recycled content and is cradle-to-cradle sustainable, which means it can be recycled back into more backing, over and over again. In other words, it's designed never to go to the landfill. See our green backings here.

Recycling and Reclamation

It's our commitment to creating the most beautiful - and sustainable - flooring in the world. And to helping create a better planet for our customers, our people and our communities in the process.

LEED

Learn about the LEED Rating system as it relates to carpet.

LEED

The LEED Rating System, developed by the United States Green Building Council (USGBC), is the definitive standard for what constitutes a "green building." It provides guidelines for designing and building environmentally responsible structures.

As one component among a list of building materials, a sustainable carpet system can contribute toward the design and certification of a LEED building. Meeting the minumum credit requirements often requires the LEED team to specify a multitude of environmentally responsible products, including, but not limited to, carpet. It is important for the LEED team to remember that carpet is just one component among a very long list that makes up a green building.

No product may be accurately called "LEED CERTIFIED." There is no product certification program sanctioned by LEED. The very best we can do as carpet manufacturers is to point out the categories where our products are addictive to the pursuit of a LEED point.

How Philadelphia and Queen Commercial Carpet contributes to LEED for Commercial Interiors.

How Philadelphia and Queen Commercial Carpet contributes to LEED for New Construction.