ANSI to govern CRI & MTS Sustainable Carpet Assessment Standard
08 Nov '05
3 min read
Carpets and rugs trade association The Carpet and Rug Institute (CRI) and The Institute for Market Transformation to Sustainability (MTS) have reached an agreement to promote their jointly developed Sustainable Carpet Assessment Standard as the preferred consensus environmental standard for purchasers, specifiers, and users of carpet.
The standard will be administered by the not-for-profit NSF International and published as an American National Standards Institute (ANSI) draft standard for trial use following registration.
This will move the standard into a well-established, transparent ANSI process that will refine and finalize the draft through a consensus–based task force within the next three years. The task force will include many of the MTS and CRI members that developed the standard.
Russell Grizzle, Chairman of the CRI Board of Directors informed that this new carpet standard is the direct result of the commitment and leadership by MTS to assemble a broad consensus stakeholder group to create sustainable building product standards.
The carpet standard began as part of an overall sustainable textile standard and grew into a larger effort with active participation of carpet manufacturers due to the well-developed environmental stewardship in the carpet industry and the desire of several state governments to enact sustainable purchasing policies for carpet.
MTS and CRI recognized the need to move the Sustainable Carpet Assessment Standard into the market quickly to meet the demand.
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