Sir Peter Parker Award
Peter Parker Award 2005
Presented at The Lincoln Centre, London on 7th June 2006 by Alan ParkerInterfaceFLOR, Halifax
Cool Carpets 
Interface produces high quality commercial carpets. Over the last 10 years it has gone through a comprehensive transformation process aimed at becoming a fully sustainable company. Interface is engaging with sustainability on 7 fronts - eliminating waste; reducing harmful emissions; maximising use of renewable energy; recycling waste materials and reusing products; developing resource efficient transportation methods; creating a culture that integrates the principles of sustainability into working lives; and creating new sustainable models for business. Interface’s waste reduction programme has generated over $200 million in savings. Its energy efficiency and renewable energy programmes have resulted in a 52% (absolute) reduction in CO2 emissions since 1996. Improvements to production processes have allowed an 81% reduction in water intake per m2 of production facilities. Petroleum based materials have been reduced by more than 29% and cumulative avoided costs from waste elimination activities since 1995 have totalled $262 million. However, Interface is now going even further by offsetting the total amount of CO2 produced throughout the carpet’s lifecycle. Interface has used Climate Care to do this. Climate Care is a not-for-profit UK based organisation that funds projects which reduce or reverse the impact of the CO2 emissions. This allowed Interface to launch the industry’s first climate neutral carpet – Cool Carpet. Since the scheme started in January 2005 Interface has sold over 491,000 square metres of Cool Carpet via the programme, resulting in more than 9,500 tonnes of CO2 being offset.