More honours for Yorks carpet Co

The honour was bestowed on the company by the Lord Lieutenant of West Yorkshire Dr Ingrid Roscoe (pictured with InterfaceFLOR operations director Steve Martin) as part of a celebratory event held at InterfaceFLOR’s headquarters in Shelf. It’s the company’s second Queen’s Award for its pioneering efforts to reduce its environmental footprint. In September, it also won the Cranfield/Works Management Best Factory Energy and Environment Award. CEO Lindsey Parnell said the honour was testament to the commitment of everyone within InterfaceFLOR to put sustainability at the core of the business. The company is recognised for having successfully managed to embed sustainability throughout its operations. Since the mid-nineties, Interface has generated over $372 million in costs avoided and has reduced greenhouse gas emissions by 82%. Total energy consumption has been reduced by 45% and the company uses 100% renewable electricity in its manufacturing in Europe. Interface was one of the first companies to publicly commit to tackling climate change. In the mid-nineties, founder Ray Anderson decided to take the company away from the traditional approach of ‘take, make, waste’ towards one that mimics nature’s recurring cycles of recycling and re-using whatever waste is made. He set a target for the company to totally eliminate any negative impact it may have on the environment by 2020; he called this Mission Zero.