Herman Miller Envelop Desk - 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
Thrive ™ Portfolio
Envelop ™ Desk
Design Story: A Surface That Moves With You
When the late Bill Stumpf and his design partner,
Jeff Weber, developed the Embody
® chair, they
noticed an unsolved problem: the lack of physical har-
mony between people and their computers. So they
began to rethink the whole concept of a desk. Envelop
became Jeff’s project, and he was responsible for most
of the work that produced the final product.
Envelop is the first desk designed to help you, your
chair, your desk, and computer work together for bet-
ter health and comfort. It’s called Envelop because
the sliding, flexible support surface—the “infield”—
envelopes you as you work, enabling healthy seated
postures. With its clean, trim aesthetic, Envelop fits
wherever you need it to be—as a freestanding desk at
home, in an office, or within a systems 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
Envelope desk is Cradle to Cradle Certified CM Silver.
This means that Envelope 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.
Material Content
Envelop desk components are constructed from wood,
steel, aluminum, foam, and plastic materials.
Envelop is up to 54-percent recyclable at the end of
its useful life.
Envelop is comprised of 59-percent recycled materials.
This figure breaks down to 19-percent post-consumer
and 40-percent pre-consumer recycled content.
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® Y and Z and Embody are among the registered trademarks of Herman Miller, Inc.
TM Thrive and Envelop are 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.
® GREENGUARD is a registered trademark of the GREENGUARD Environmental Institute.
© 2012 Herman Miller, Inc., Zeeland, Michigan
POST-CONSUMER
RECYCLED CONTENT 19%
PRE-CONSUMER
RECYCLED CONTENT 40%
ALUMINUM 24%
WOOD 30%
STEEL 29%
FOAM 13%
PLASTIC 2%
OTHER 2%