At Westbond, our attitude is constructed around how we can reduce our environmental impact. Since Westbond was founded in 1982 we have applied wise commercial and environmental procedures.
Our new factory was built in 2000 to exacting standards for the production of carpet tiles, giving efficiency and resource management top priority.
Having successfully achieved our ISO 9001 Quality Control certification we set ourselves the target of formalising our environmental system to the standards of ISO 14001.
In November 2003 Westbond’s environmental system was approved to the ISO 14001 standard.
Westbond have since become one of the few European carpet suppliers to achieve the Carpet & Rug Institutes (CRI) ‘Green Label +’ indoor air quality standard on our N9000 Carpet Tile.
From 2005 all our necessary emissions have been offset using the Improved Cooking Stoves project in Nepal. Poor efficiency of normal stoves results in high consumption of wood, leading to rapid deforestation – a 'double-whammy' of high CO2 emissions, coupled with swift decline of CO2 absorbing existing forests.
Since Certification in 2003 the following major achievements have been realised:
- Recycling of all post production carpet waste
- Launched a product (Natural), which has been specifically engineered for lowest environmental product by using no dye, and wool yarn from a renewable source
- Waste to landfill has been reduced by over 80% since 2003, and a further reduction in 2007 by 10% has been achieved.
- Offset our emissions
- Energy consumption has been reduced by 10% since in 2006/2007, and a further reduction in 2007 /2008 by 10% will be achieved.
- Reduced packaging by being able to supply unboxed deliveries.
- CRI’s Green Label + Certification
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