Our Commitment | Shaw Green Edge

Commitment

Sustainability™ Through Innovation™ – That's the Shaw Green Edge®

It's our commitment to create the most beautiful – and sustainable – flooring in the world. And to help create a better planet for our customers, our people and our communities in the process.

Rooted in our drive to continuously improve every aspect of our business, the Shaw Green Edge® guides everything we do, every day – from maintaining the health and well-being of our people and communities, conserving energy and water, and recycling raw materials – to designing Cradle to Cradle products that can be remanufactured over and over again.

Because setting the standard for environmental excellence, social responsibility and product design is more than our responsibility. It's also good business. And it's our legacy.

Our Commitment

We are committed to sustainability as the business model that positions us as the industry leader today and far into the future. It’s a model designed to drive our business performance, growth and productivity, and to support the growth, innovation and productivity across our value chain and that of our customers and partners.

We are committed to acting in a manner that is responsible, efficient, and effective in our application of human and material resources to meet the current and future expectations of our employees, customers and stakeholders. Guided by a cradle to cradle philosophy, we are dedicated to continually creating business value by leveraging and enhancing our systems and performance through the three pillars of sustainability:

• Operational & Environmental Excellence
• Corporate Governance & Social Responsibility
• Innovative Products & Services

Through our Shaw Green Edge platform, we demonstrate our leadership and sustainable value creation, today and tomorrow.

Our Goals

We’re dedicated to reducing our entire environmental footprint. Our five corporate environmental goals are designed to help us do just that – and measure our progress along the way.

We will reduce our energy intensity by 25 percent by 2017 using 2007 as a baseline – a goal we’ve created in partnership with the United States Department of Energy (DOE) Save Energy Now Leader Program.

We will reduce our waste to landfill by 90 percent by year-end 2011 using 2008 as a baseline – starting with a 25 percent reduction by year-end 2009, and a 50 percent reduction by year-end 2010.

In addition to the significant reductions we have made in our water consumption since 1999, we will further reduce our water intensity by 25 percent by 2010, and by 40 percent by 2016 using year-end 2006 as a baseline.

We have a target OSHA incidence rate of less than 1 by year-end 2009.

We will measure and publicly report our greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) as Founding Reporters of The Climate Registry.