NSF 140-2015
- Sustainability Assessment for Carpet
- standard by NSF International, 02/27/2015
- Category: NSF
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This Standard is intended to enable organizations throughout the carpet supply chain to applyperformance requirements to achieve sustainable attributes and demonstrate compliance with levels ofachievement through quantifiable metrics. The Standard is inclusive, is based on life cycle assessment(LCA) principles, and provides benchmarks for continuous improvement and innovation.
This Standard is intended to allow inclusive participation and encourage the progressive movement of thecarpet industry toward sustainability. This Standard identifies requirements of sustainable attributeperformance and three levels of achievement by which carpet materials and products can be measuredwith respect to specific attributes that indicate progress toward sustainability.
While this Standard can be used on any carpet product, it is intended to be used for evaluation ofcommercial carpet products by providing a product evaluation methodology that is additive to emergingcommercial green building standards.
This Standard does not apply to the packaging of sustainable carpets or to the adhesive or paddingproducts used in the installation of carpet products.
This Standard is voluntary, but emphasizes disclosure of information on both impacts and benefits of acarpet or carpet product from an environmental and sustainability perspective.
All products or processes can be found compliant to this Standard if they are able to achieve allprerequisites and score the minimum required for compliance as specified in 4.
This Standard is intended to allow inclusive participation and encourage the progressive movement of thecarpet industry toward sustainability. This Standard identifies requirements of sustainable attributeperformance and three levels of achievement by which carpet materials and products can be measuredwith respect to specific attributes that indicate progress toward sustainability.
While this Standard can be used on any carpet product, it is intended to be used for evaluation ofcommercial carpet products by providing a product evaluation methodology that is additive to emergingcommercial green building standards.
This Standard does not apply to the packaging of sustainable carpets or to the adhesive or paddingproducts used in the installation of carpet products.
This Standard is voluntary, but emphasizes disclosure of information on both impacts and benefits of acarpet or carpet product from an environmental and sustainability perspective.
All products or processes can be found compliant to this Standard if they are able to achieve allprerequisites and score the minimum required for compliance as specified in 4.
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