Herman Miller Avive Table Collection - 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
Avive ® Table Collection
Design Story: A Simple, Cost-Effective
Systems Solution
Jeff Weber, of Stumpf, Weber + Associates, designed
the Avive collection of freestanding table desks, table
extensions, and tables to integrate comfortably with
Herman Miller systems furniture or stand alone
wherever needed. Avive ably supports team, individual,
and collaborative processes, both inside and outside
of workstations.
In addition to its clean design, compatibility, and
versatile application, the Avive collection boasts a
high level of recycled content.
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
The Avive Collection 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 Avive Table Collection’s components are
constructed from wood, aluminum, steel, plastic, and
other materials.
The Avive Collection is up to 40 percent recyclable
at the end of its useful life.
The Avive Collection is comprised of 81-percent
recycled materials. This figure breaks down to 17-percent
post-consumer and 64-percent pre-consumer recycled
content.
• Most laminate and veneer Avive tables
may be ordered as FSC ® certified
products.
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® Y and Z , Avive, and Formcoat 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
WOOD 56%
ALUMINUM 32%
STEEL 8%
PLASTIC 2%
OTHER 2%
PRE-CONSUMER
RECYCLED CONTENT 64%
POST-CONSUMER
RECYCLED CONTENT 17%