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The purpose of this Standard is to provide a market-based definition for a path to sustainable carpet, toestablish performance requirements for public health and environment, and to address the triple bottomline, economic-environmental-social, throughout the supply chain.

The goals of this Standard are to:increase the economic value of sustainable carpet throughout the supply chain by enhancingmarket demand for sustainable carpet products;provide information that enables specifiers to sort out the complex information on sustainabilityattributes;identify other consensus-based standards relevant to sustainable carpet;educate and instruct all stakeholders in the carpet supply chain; andencourage competition between manufacturers and their suppliers to seek out or developenvironmentally preferable processes, practices, power sources, and materials.

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Published: 11/08/2009 ANSI: ANSI Approved Number of Pages: 50File Size: 1 file , 850 KB