Our Green Story

For 10 years, ECOsurfaces has offered a fashionable selection of patterns and colors that make a unique design statement, without sacrificing the environment. In fact, ECOsurfaces was environmentally correct long before sustainable design made the scene. Because of their many positive environmental attributes, our floors make it easy to design responsibly. ECOsurfaces is FloorScore certified. This means that our products are in compliance with rigorous indoor air quality emission requirements. Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are evaluated using healthbased specifications. Flooring and adhesives that earn FloorScore certification qualify for use in high performance schools and office buildings. ECOsurfaces flooring also meets the Collaborative for High Performance Schools (CHPS) criteria, the State of Washington standard for indoor air quality and supports the ASTM E2129-01 Sustainability Assessment.

ECOsurfaces flooring is comprised of post-consumer tire rubber and ColorMill EPDM, made from pre-consumer waste and organic fillers. These materials are bound together using a water based polyurethane polymer. The entire product line is produced using a low embodied energy manufacturing process that requires minimal water, avoids heat and reuses in-line scrap to decrease waste. The result is beautiful, environmentally savvy commercial flooring that passes the strictest tests for indoor air quality, low-VOC emissions and is recyclable. ECOsurfaces commercial flooring can assist specifiers by potentially contributing toward earning 9 LEED points.

ECOsurfaces is manufactured by ECORE International, North America's largest user of scrap tire rubber. Each year ECORE recycles over 80 million pounds of scrap rubber saving over 1 million barrels of oil and keeping over 2,000 trailer loads of discarded tires out of our nation's landfills.