Herman Miller Passage 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
Passage ® Desking System
Design Story: Freestanding Flexibility
Herman Miller’s Passage desking system blends the
advantages of freestanding and systems furniture, and
works equally well in open and enclosed spaces, in
individual and team settings. Passage starts with
modular desk units that provide the basic building
blocks upon which both the structure and the delivery
of power and data are based.
Environmentally speaking, durability is an essential
quality when selecting office furniture. Passage is
built to handle reconfiguration, reorganization, and
reengineering, additional attributes that extend the
system’s life cycle and lessen its environmental impact.
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
Passage 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 Passage system’s components are constructed
from steel, wood, plastic, textile, and other materials.
The Passage system is up to 63 percent recyclable
at the end of its useful life.
Passage is comprised of 49-percent recycled materials.
This figure breaks down to 15-percent post-consumer
and 34-percent pre-consumer recycled content.
• Most Passage square-edged laminate
and veneer worksurfaces may be ordered
as FSC
® certified products.
• Most metal components have a powder-
coat paint finish that emits negligible
z
1
Y
® Y and Z and Passage are among the registered trademarks of Herman Miller, Inc.
® level is a trademark of BIFMA International.
Only the products that are identified as such on this document are FSC® certified.
® GREENGUARD is a registered trademark of the GREENGUARD Environmental Institute.
© 2012 Herman Miller, Inc., Zeeland, Michigan
STEEL 61%
WOOD 32%
PLASTIC 4%
OTHER 3%
POST-CONSUMER
RECYCLED CONTENT 15%
PRE-CONSUMER
RECYCLED CONTENT 34%