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Miller with Design For Recycling® Award
ISRI Honors Herman Miller with Design For
Recycling® Award
April 30, 2009
ISRI today honored the furniture manufacturer
Herman Miller with its 2009 Design for
Recycling® Award, at ceremonies held during
ISRI's 2009 Convention and Exposition in Las Vegas,
Nev. Accepting the award on behalf of Herman Miller
was Paul Murray.
"Herman Miller is an exemplary company that
personifies the Design for Recycling® concept,"
stated ISRI Chair George Adams, Jr., president of SA
Recycling LLC of Anaheim, Calif. "This is a company
that has embraced the concept of environmental
stewardship for more than 85 years…with the
company's principals promoting recycling as a design
point since the early 1970's. Throughout the past
forty years, Herman Miller has made it a mission to
improve recyclability and reduce waste in the design
and manufacture of its products. And it is one of
the few manufacturing companies that recognize the
value of recycling over cost as they do not allow a
potential cost to recycle to weigh into their
environmental decision-making process."
A detailed profile of the company Herman Miller
is available on the ISRI Web site at www.isri.org/dfr/hermanmiller.
For more than two decades, the Institute of Scrap
Recycling Industries, Inc. has promoted Design for
Recycling®, a voluntary program that encourages
manufacturers to fully consider end-of-life
recyclability in the earliest stages of product
design. ISRI established the Design for
Recycling® award, to honor a program, company
or individual whose product or program design has
incorporated one or more of the following:
- A reduction in the number of different
recyclable materials
- A reduction or elimination of hazardous
constituents
- An increased yield of the product's
recyclables
- An improvement in the safety of recycling
- A design that allows for easy disassembly for
recycling
This is the third Design for Recycling®
award given by ISRI. The Environmental Protection
Agency was honored in 2006 for its overall
leadership in creating innovative design
partnerships, and its dedication to empower
businesses and industry sectors to incorporate
environmental considerations, along with performance
and cost considerations, into decision-making
processes. Computer manufacturer Hewlett-Packard was
honored in 2005 for its documented efforts to reduce
the use of hazardous substances, to simplify
component design, and to build computers and
printing products for easy disassembly and
recycling. More information on ISRI's Design for
Recycling® is available at www.isri.org/dfr.
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