Herman Miller Sense Desking System - Environmental Product Summary - Manual

Our sustainability goals by the year 2020:
• Zero carbon footprint
• Zero landfill
• Zero hazardous waste generation
• Zero air emissions (VOCs)
• Zero process water use
• 100 percent renewable electrical energy use via renewable
energy credits and a power purchase agreement
• Company buildings constructed to a minimum LEED Silver certification
• 100 percent of sales from DfE approved products
Environmental Product Summary
Sense ™ Desking System
Design Story: Simple Design, Good for the Earth
Sense starts with simple, intuitive design. Because all
components lock, click, or snap quickly into place with
no tools, it’s easy to repurpose Sense for a different
function. This approach has environmental benefits:
When your needs evolve, you don’t need to replace an
entire piece, extending the length of the product’s life.
And its thin profile means minimal materials are used,
reducing the impact of waste on the environment.
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?
Cradle to Cradle Certified CM
Sense desking system is Cradle to Cradle Certified CM
Silver. This means that Sense has been evaluated for
its material health, and is designed for material reuse
in a closed loop system, such as recycling or composting.
It is assembled using 100% renewable energy.
Global GreenTag CertTM GreenRate Certified
Sense desking system is Global GreenTag CertTM
GreenRate Level A certified. Global GreenTag CertTM is an
Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
(ACCC) approved National Certification Mark, an ISO
compliant ecolabel and Green Building Councils of
Australia and New Zealand recognized third party
certifier. GreenTag GreenRate certification enables
products to be allocated Level A, B or C in the Green
Building Council of Australia (GBCA) and New Zealand
GBC’s Green Star
TM tools and certify both VOC and
formaldehyde (composite wood) credits.
Material Content
Sense components are constructed from steel, wood,
plastic, aluminum, and other materials.
Sense is up to 55 percent recyclable at the end of its
useful life.
Sense is comprised of 44-percent recycled materials.
This figure breaks down to 2-percent post-consumer
and 42-percent pre-consumer recycled content.
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® Y and Z are among the registered trademarks of Herman Miller, Inc.
™ Sense is among the trademarks of Herman Miller, Inc.
Cradle to Cradle Certified CM is a certification mark licensed by the Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute.
Global GreenTag CertTM is an Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) approved
National Certification Mark.
® GREENGUARD is a registered trademark of the GREENGUARD Environmental Institute.
© 2012 Herman Miller, Inc., Zeeland, Michigan
STEEL 48%
WOOD 40%
OTHER 5%
PLASTIC 5%
ALUMINUM 2%