by Brianna Crandall — April 25, 2011—This Earth Week marks Designtex’s second year of carbon neutral operations. Coinciding with their 50th Anniversary, Designtex claims to be the only contract textile distributor to achieve a net zero operational footprint in its role as a major supplier to an increasingly green building market.
Designtex has continued its partnership again this year with NativeEnergy, a leading provider of carbon offsets, renewable energy credits, and carbon footprint consulting. NativeEnergy assessed Designtex’s total operational footprint for 2011 according to the World Resources Institute’s (WRI) Greenhouse Gas Protocols.
The resulting footprint of 4075 tons of CO2 emissions this year includes all Designtex facilities’ energy use, business travel, freight (inbound and outbound shipments), employee commuting, and waste. A summary of the report, Carbon Footprint and Mitigation Summary, is available on Designtex’s Web site.
Of the total footprint, the majority (3341 tons CO2) will be offset through investment in the Wewoka Biogas Project, with the remaining tons (734 from electricity use) to be balanced through Green-e certified renewable energy credits (RECs) from Midwest wind power.
