Herman Miller Flute Personal Light - 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
Flute ™ Personal Light
Design Story: Accommodating Small Footprints
Providing better, more effective products to connect
individuals to their work is one of the key goals of the
Thrive Portfolio, whose products include the Flute
personal light.
Designed by Tom Newhouse, the Flute personal light—
with its simple aesthetics and light weight—provides
uncomplicated compatibility within any office footprint.
Flute can be used freestanding or with a surface
mount. Flute’s lightscale design can also help reduce
a user’s carbon footprint by minimizing packaging,
shipping, and storage. And, it incorporates the latest
in LED technology to provide high-quality light output,
while consuming 30-50+% less energy than traditional
task lights. Using only a total of 5.2 watts of energy,
Flute provides a total of 160 lumens and has a lifespan
of more than 60,000 hours (about 23 years with
average use).
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?
Material Content
Flute personal light components are constructed from
zinc, steel, electronics, aluminum and plastic.
Flute is up to 85 percent recyclable at the end of its
useful life.
Flute is comprised of 37 percent recycled materials.
This figure breaks down to 20-percent post-consumer
and 17-percent pre-consumer recycled content.
• Steel components contain approximately 35 percent
recycled content and are 100 percent recyclable.
• Most metal components have a powder-coat paint
finish that emits negligible volatile organic compounds
(VOCs).
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POST-CONSUMER
RECYCLED CONTENT 20%
PRE-CONSUMER
RECYCLED CONTENT 17%
ZINC 61%
STEEL 16%
ELECTRONICS 15%
ALUMINUM 5%
PLASTIC 3%