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Objective: Understand, reduce and eliminate the negative environmental impacts from the manufacture, use and end-of-life management of Haworth products and workspaces. |
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How are we achieving this? |
We believe in life cycle thinking—creating individual products that encompass Design for the Environment (DfE) strategies. We design products that interface and integrate to create a more sustainable workspace environment. The result is interiors that flex and change with an organization and extend the life cycle of the workspace, in alignment with our customers’ business goals.
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Individual products meet DfE and ergonomic priorities and protocols. For example, materials and chemicals are reviewed against our Red, Yellow, Green Chemical Assessment. This assessment consolidates internationally accepted information sources to classify materials according to impacts on human health and the environment.
Haworth Product Materials Recovery Options
Sustainable Design Information
Haworth's Wood Policy
Haworth-BIFMA level
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| Materials are also selected based on recycled content and/or recyclability at the end of useful life. Materials with an existing infrastructure for recycling and products designed for easy disassembly are more likely to be recycled.
Our products complement our workspace platform through integrated design, planning and connection logic. Integration builds flexibility and adaptability for design, and reduces redundancies and waste generated by change. Haworth products are sustainable solutions when used alone. Used together they create more adaptable, more sustainable work environments. |