Shaw Industries, Inc. recognizes that merely preserving and conserving the natural bounty of the earth will not make us a sustainable corporation. A truly sustainable carpet industry must mimic nature's organic cycle of life, death, and rebirth. The answer does not lie in limiting growth, but in encouraging the kind of growth that is cradle-to-cradle, returning carpet to carpet endlessly. Toward that end, Shaw has adopted these productive policies and practices.
Environmental sustainability is our destination and cradle-to-cradle is our path. Our entire corporation and all stakeholders will value and share this vision.
Through eco-effective technology we will continuously redesign our products, our processes, and our corporation.
We will take responsibility for all that we do and strive to return our products to technical nutrient cycles that virtually eliminate the concept of waste.
We will plan for generations, while accepting the urgency of the present. We are committed to the communities where we live and work. Our resources, health, and diversity will not be compromised.
We look forward to a solar-powered future utilizing the current solar income of the earth, anticipating declining solar costs and rising fossil fuel costs as technology and resource depletion accelerate.
We will lead our industry in developing and delivering profitable cradle-to-cradle solutions to our free-market economy. Economy, equity, and ecology will be continually optimized.
Honesty, integrity, and hard work remain our core values. We will continue to deliver unsurpassed safety, quality, beauty, performance, and value to our customers.
Our statements of environmental policy described our efforts toward sustainability as a journey. But a journey must have a well-defined destination, a clear path ahead, and a purposeful stride. As we learn and grow, this document will be refined by generations of Shaw leaders who won ' t think about sustainability. They ' ll see it as an essential business practice, perhaps without realizing that previous generations consciously changed for the better the world in which they lived. Sustainability is our gift to you … and to the future.
Shaw Industries Group, Inc. and its subsidiaries (collectively, “Shaw”) is firmly
committed to providing industry leadership in environmental performance and
sustainability. Through the establishment of an Environmental Management
System (EMS), Shaw will continually improve its operations and activities and
set progressive environmental goals that aim to minimize our impact on the
environment.
Acknowledging our responsibility to the environment, we will adhere to the
following policy practices:
• Shaw will comply with applicable environmental laws and regulations
and other policies and programs as appropriate for the corporation that
provide a strong foundation for environmental initiatives that extend
beyond compliance.
• Shaw will strive to continually reduce waste and prevent pollution,
including the reuse and recycling of waste streams and the redesign of
our products and processes.
• Shaw will seek alternative sources of energy and strive to develop
closed-loop technologies that use post consumer products as
production process inputs.
• Shaw will communicate these policy commitments to our employees,
our contractors and other key stakeholders. This policy will be made
available to regulatory agencies, the public or other interested parties
upon request.
This policy will be periodically reviewed by Shaw’s top management and
environmental leadership to ensure that it is achieving its stated goals and
remains relevant and appropriate as our company grows and changes.
