Cradle to Cradle

Objective. Comprehensive. Safe. The Cradle to Cradle Certification evaluates and improves products by thoroughly assessing and optimizing materials and production processes. Certification means a healthy, safe, effective and quality product that is recyclable again and again.

Cradle to Cradle is open to a wide variety of products – not just carpet – which allows for more stringent criteria during the evaluation process, instead of being focused on one industry in particular.

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  • Shaw’s Cradle to Cradle Path

Shaw's Cradle to Cradle Path

Our Cradle to Cradle Certified products:

  • Eco Solution Q nylon
  • EcoWorx tile
  • EcoWorx Broadloom
  • EcoWorx Performance Broadloom

Maximizing material value. Eliminating waste. Through a closed-loop cycle, our carpet products are completely recyclable. It’s a revolutionary design process that isn’t all that groundbreaking. We just mimicked nature and designed carpet to be remade into carpet, preventing landfill waste. That’s cradle-to-cradle design.

A carpet’s main components are face fiber and backing. Our Eco Solution Q nylon and EcoWorx backings are completely recyclable components. This returns post consumer materials back to Shaw, in the process preserving raw materials and keeping carpet from landfills. Not only have we designed our carpet to be recycled, we’ve also developed a collections network, established an international environmental guarantee, and implemented processes to recycle nylon through Evergreen and backings through dissolution and elutriation.