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Miliken Carpet Receives Evergreen Award

David Barram (right), administrator of the General Services Adminstration, presents the first Evergreen Award to Charlie Ball of Milliken Carpet in recognition of Milliken’s Earth Square renewable carpet program.

Source: Milliken Carpet
Milliken Carpet has received the first Evergreen Award from the U.S. General Services Administration for its Earth Square™ carpet refurbishing program (formerly known as Earthwise Ennovations™).

As described in “New Life for Old Carpets” (EBN

Vol. 6, No. 6), the Earth Square program takes used carpet tile from buildings and renews it through a process of deep cleaning, raising the compressed fibers, and overprinting with a new pattern. The renewed carpet is then sold for about half the price of new carpet. An Evergreen Award (a plate made of recycled glass) will be presented annually as part of the Planet GSA program to increase federal involvement in “driving green, buying green, building green, and saving green.”

Published August 1, 1998

(1998, August 1). Miliken Carpet Receives Evergreen Award. Retrieved from https://www.buildinggreen.com/newsbrief/miliken-carpet-receives-evergreen-award

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