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Herman Miller Wins Design for Recycling Award

The award was presented by former President Bill Clinton.

Nicholas Tamarin -- Interior Design, 5/13/2009 12:00:00 AM

Beating out heavy-hitters including Toyota and Wal-Mart, archetypal furniture manufacturer Herman Miller was awarded the 2009 Design Recycling award from the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries.

The ISRI, a trade group with more than 1,600 member companies, enlisted none other than former President Bill Clinton to present the award to Herman Miller's director of environmental health and safety Paul Murray in front of several thousand member delegates at the institute's annual convention and exposition in Las Vegas on April 30.

The Zeeland, Michigan-based manufacturer of seating classics from the likes of Charles and Ray Eames and George Nelson bagged the award for its excellence in innovation combined with an advancement of recycling through its design and manufacturing process.

"Herman Miller is an exemplary company that personifies the Design for Recycling concept," says ISRI chair George Adams. "This is a company that has embraced the concept of environmental stewardship for more than 85 years…with the company's principals promoting recycling as a design point since the early 1970's."