Environmental Responsibility

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LG Hausys floors is taking resilient floor manufacturing and environmental stewardship to the next level.

Traditionally, in the resilient flooring category, manufacturers have been plagued by the fact that resilient floors, because of application and installation, were limited in afterlife recyclability and reuse of the product. This has been unacceptable to many specifiers and end-users, especially since a good example has been set by our flooring brethren in the carpeting category. However, the fact remains that, when a resilient floor is glued down to a substrate, the glue cannot be removed afterward, making resilient flooring unusable in its afterlife. We needed to find another way.

Industry Confusion

In addition to this dilemma, a true source of recycled material has never been easy to find. Currently, many manufacturers reuse their own scrap back into the product. According to the ISO references in the LEED rating system, this doesn’t qualify as post-industrial content. However, even in this day and age, many manufacturers are unaware of this definition and still promote their material as containing post-industrial material.

New Developments

LG has discovered several ways to not only incorporate true post-industrial content into their product but, for the first time in the industry, LG will be able to incorporate their own post-consumer recycled content into resilient floor covering. Post-consumer recycled content is, of course, viewed as the most coveted because it involves reclaiming material after it has been used by the consumer. This kind of recycled content is more difficult to acquire, because it tends to be sporadically available and its reclamation is difficult. Unlike post-industrial material that may be sitting in great quantity in some factory, post-consumer material is spread out among many households.

LG has developed a way of incorporating post-industrial and post-consumer content by creating a new program. LG is domestically reclaiming their own product (as well as the competition’s material) from individual households and end-users and reusing it to make floors again. This is the closest any resilient flooring manufacturer has come to producing material in a closed loop manufacturing process.

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There are other environmental benefits that are gained by using LG Flooring: indoor environmental quality, compliant adhesives and sealants, green cleaning and maintenance, and much more.

Please see our LEED Scorecard for more details.