Allseating has always been an environmentally conscious company – not simply because it’s the right way to work, but because it’s the smarter way to work. In fact, the more steps we take towards reducing our carbon footprint, the more benefits we’re seeing to our bottom-line. As you can see from our range of green initiatives:
ISO 14001
This international specification is the gold standard for helping companies introduce and adopt environmental management systems. We figured thousands of companies around the world can’t be wrong, so we decided to make it our guide for executing and measuring our green goals.
One such initiative has been the solid waste diversion program we set up to identify ways to minimize whatever we generate, reuse materials wherever possible and recycle whenever feasible. This year, our goal is to reduce our waste by 5%.
GREENGUARD™ Certification
Our entire line of seating products is GREENGUARD Children and Schools™ Certified for indoor air quality – the strictest criteria for products intended for use in schools and other environments where children spend significant time. An independent, non-profit organization, the GREENGUARD Environmental Institute™ establishes acceptable standards for indoor products and testing protocols.
Environmental Data Sheets
We’re proud to see so many of our clients making the commitment to achieving LEED Certification. When earning the valuable points required by LEED for certification, the chairs you specify can add up. Our Environmental Data Sheets demonstrate how we can help you meet LEED Certification criteria just by choosing our products.
Green Fabrics and Finishes
We’re always adding to our broad palette of fabrics that boast recycled content – or are made from rapidly renewable resources like bamboo, which can grow up to one meter a day! Whether it’s recyclable metal frames, soy-based foam or FSC certified wood options, we strive to choose materials that lengthen the life of our chairs. And when one does finally reach the end of its usefulness, it’s easily recycled.
Blanket Wrapping
It might seem like such a simple thing, but every time we blanket wrap a shipment, you don’t have to deal with the disposal of unwanted cardboard. So not only are we minimizing our waste, we’re helping to reduce yours too!
Daily Operations
To reduce our use of virgin wood resources, we use FSC-Certified paper for our corporate promotional materials and recycled fibers in our corrugated packaging. We follow the three R’s throughout our facility, and encourage our team to minimize waste in all activities - be it in materials use, electricity, or water usage.
We have worked hard to engineer chairs with long life-cycles to minimize the need for disposal. When our chairs do reach the end of their useful life, we encourage clients to recycle them, and are willing to facilitate them doing so upon request.
Whether clients are curious if the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, or a few steps ahead of us along the greener path, we enjoy sharing thoughts, ideas and feedback. Our green committee representative can be contacted at marketing [at] allseating [dot] com.
Renewable Energy
We have offset our electricity use by purchasing "renewable-energy certificates" (RECs) also known as "green tags" or "tradable renewable certificates", to cover over 20% of our total energy consumption. RECs represent the environmental attributes associated with renewable electricity such as wind and solar. This investment has helped to support the building of new renewable energy infrastructure within both the U.S. and Canada helping to reduce global GHG emissions through renewable enery generation.
