SustainCase: How Desso designs and produces recyclable products containing recycled content

Case study: How Desso designs and produces recyclable products containing recycled content


As a leading carpets and carpet tiles company that operates in over 100 countries, developing products for hotels, homes, cruise liners and airlines, government, education, corporate offices and healthcare, Desso, committed to sustainable development, strives to design and offer products that can be recycled infinitely, without quality losses.


Abstract


Believing that commercial success is inextricably connected to environmental and social responsibility, Desso strives to ensure that its products are made from materials that are both recycled and recyclable. In order to design and produce recyclable products containing recycled content Desso took action to:

• ensure products meet the requirements of the Cradle to Cradle Certified Product Standard

• increase recycled content contained in carpets, carpet tiles and sports pitches

• use eco-effective design for products

• offer customers the option to lease rather than own carpets


Using the GRI Standards in order to maintain and increase the value of your company


With each publication in this series the FBRH team will highlight one key impact identified by a company reporting in accordance with the GRI Standards and show how it has taken a structured, systematic approach to improving performance. With such positive action companies build trust, by dealing responsibly and conscientiously with their impact on the environment and on their stakeholders (e.g. clients, suppliers, shareholders, local communities, NGOs or local government). Stakeholders that can hold it back or stop it from reaching its objectives


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