Herman Miller Equa 2 Stool - Environmental Product Summary - Manual

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• Zero carbon footprint
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• Zero hazardous waste generation
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• Zero process water use
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Environmental Product Summary
Equa 2 ® Chair
Design Story: Ergonomic Comfort that’s
Environmentally Responsible
Bill Stumpf and Don Chadwick designed the Equa 2
with the belief that everyone, regardless of their size,
shape, or organizational status, deserves a good,
ergonomically supportive chair. The result is high-
performance seating suitable for the range of activities
one experiences in a typical workday.
Throughout Equa 2’s design and development stages,
we emphasized environmental responsibility in raw
material selection and sourcing. Preference was given
to materials from renewable and sustainable sources.
Herman Miller’s Design Protocol
Our commitment to corporate sustainability naturally
includes minimizing the environmental impact of each
of our products. Our Design for Environment team (DfE)
applies environmentally sensitive design standards to
both new and existing Herman Miller products.
The DfE Design Protocol goes beyond regulatory
compliance to thoroughly evaluate new product
designs in four key areas:
• Material Chemistry and Safety of Inputs—
What chemicals are in the materials we specify, and
are they the safest available?
• Disassembly—Can we take products apart at the
end of their useful life, to recycle their materials?
• Recyclability—Do the materials contain recycled
content, and more importantly, can the materials be
recycled at the end of the product’s useful life?
• LCA—Have we optimized the product based on the
entire life cycle?
level ® Certification
Equa 2 is certified level 1. The level conformance mark
ensures a comprehensive, independent, and impartial
assessment of the environmental and social impacts
of a product.
Material Content
The Equa 2 chair’s components are constructed from
plastic, steel, aluminum, foam, fabric and other
materials.
The Equa 2 chair is up to 86 percent recyclable at
the end of its useful life.
Equa 2 is comprised of 28-percent recycled materials.
The recycled content breaks down to 17-percent post-
consumer and 11-percent pre-consumer content.
• Die-cast aluminum components are typically made
from more than 95-percent recycled material and
are 100 percent recyclable.
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® Y and Z and Equa 2 are among the registered trademarks of Herman Miller, Inc.
Cradle to Cradle Certified CM is a certification mark licensed by the Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute.
® level is a trademark of BIFMA International.
® GREENGUARD is a registered trademark of the GREENGUARD Environmental Institute.
© 2012 Herman Miller, Inc., Zeeland, Michigan
POST-CONSUMER
RECYCLED CONTENT 17%
PRE-CONSUMER
RECYCLED CONTENT 11%
PLASTIC 38%
STEEL 32%
ALUMINUM 19%
FOAM 6%
FABRIC 3%
OTHER 2%