Herman Miller My Studio Environments - 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
My Studio Environments ™
Design Story: Small Footprint, Big Idea
Herman Miller asked award-winning Canadian designer
Douglas Ball to develop a new system to address
today’s business office real estate constraints while
maximizing the effectiveness of the 6’-by-8’ worksta-
tion. Ball has responded with My Studio Environments,
which successfully combines the complex and con-
tradictory features of the private office and the open
cubicle.
As an individual who confesses a love of small spaces
including sailboat cabins and Volkswagen bus interiors,
Ball set the goal of optimizing the individual work area
to make it feel larger than it really is. The result is a
system that’s efficient, functional, and human-centered.
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
My Studio Environments is certified level 1. The
level conformance mark ensures a comprehensive,
independent, and impartial assessment of the
environmental and social impacts of a product.
Cradle to Cradle Certified CM
My Studio Environments is Cradle to Cradle Certified CM
Silver. This means that My Studio Environments 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
My Studio’s components are constructed from steel,
wood, aluminum, glass, plastic, other materials, and
laminate.
My Studio is up to 71 percent recyclable at the end
of its useful life.
My Studio is comprised of 41-percent recycled
materials. This figure breaks down to 18-percent
post-consumer and 23-percent pre-consumer recycled
content.
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TM My Studio Environments 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.
® level is a trademark of BIFMA International.
® GREENGUARD is a registered trademark of the GREENGUARD Environmental Institute.
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STEEL 59%
WOOD 21%
ALUMINUM 7%
GLASS 7%
PLASTIC 5%
OTHER 1%