Dezeen promotion: flooring company Interface's range of carpet and vinyl tiles is designed to help customers minimise their carbon footprint.
The Atlanta-based brand is aiming to help tackle climate change by achieving carbon neutrality across its product line, while keeping design quality as high as possible.

"Interface is designing with the climate in mind," said a statement from the company. "We are the first global flooring manufacturer to declare that all of our products ? including all carpet tile and luxury vinyl tile (LVT) ? are carbon neutral across the entire product lifecycle."
The company has been working for over 20 years to improve its environmental credentials across the board and lower its carbon footprint. A part of this involves investing in carbon credits ? paying other companies or initiatives to fund carbon-reducing projects. These can range from planting trees to constructing biogas plants.

At no extra cost to the customer, Interface has been able to offset the carbon used for its entire production process and product lifecycle beyond manufacture ? based on its calculations.
The hope is for this new Carbon Neutral Floors programme to encourage customers to take action and help them towards lowering their own carbon footprint, or that of their project or company.

This approach forms part of the company's wider Climate Take Back sustainability goal, which calls on business to join Interface on its mission to reverse global warmin...