Interface´s Ray Anderson Featured in DiCaprio Documentary
The premier featured a carpet fabricated from automotive part scrap waste.
Mairi Beautyman -- Interior Design, 8/14/2007 12:00:00 AM
Last week the “green” carpet rolled out at the Arc Light Theatre in Los Angeles for the premier of a new environmental documentary by Leonardo DiCaprio, "11th Hour." Ray Anderson, chairman of carpet manufacturer Interface, is one of 52 experts who earned a role in the call-to-action flick, which is produced by Leila Conners Petersen and Nadia Conners of Tree Media Group.
Opening August 17th, the film addresses the culmative human influence on the planet´s life system, and calls for restorative action through a reshaping of human activity. The 100-percent-recycled yarn carpet at the premier was Kings Road commercial carpet from carpet manufacturer Bentley Prince Street, an Interface company. The 6,6 nylon fiber in the carpet is made from automotive part scrap waste.
After reading Paul Hawken’s The Ecology of Commerce, Anderson took another look at his company—13 years later, it is approximately 40 percent to its target of "Mission Zero," a company-wide sustainable initiative.
"I have experienced firsthand Leonardo DiCaprio’s personal commitment to activism on behalf of our planet, and I am moved by the spirit of action he is creating around the film," says Ray Anderson.
"With the onset of global warming and other catastrophic events, environmentalism has become a broader unifying human issue," says DiCaprio. "We as citizens, leaders, consumers, and voters have the opportunity to help integrate ecology into every day living standards."
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