The challenge

Interface’s environmental strategy is anchored in its SBTi-validated 2030 targets, which guide every operational and design decision. Meeting them requires reducing emissions across all scopes – and particularly Scope 3 – while demonstrating how a global manufacturer can decarbonise at speed without compromising on quality or performance.

The solution

Interface has eliminated offsets and invests exclusively in direct carbon reduction – a decision that has sparked meaningful conversations across the manufacturing sector, encouraging others to follow suit.

The strategy centres on material research and development and avoiding emissions through thoughtful design: changing material usage to create products with more recycled content that last longer and can be easily recycled. Durability is a priority, since longer-lasting floors mean fewer replacements and emissions over time, while modular flooring uses less material and cuts installation waste.

Transparency is central. All Environmental Product Declarations, carbon data, certifications and tools – including Interface’s Carbon Calculator and embodied carbon resources – are freely available on its website, empowering customers to make informed, low-carbon choices.

How the project works

Innovations in backings allow Interface to deliver impact at scale. Its CQuest™Bio and CQuest™BioX backings use carbon neutral and carbon negative materials without compromising performance, and carbon negative CQuest™BioX – which stores more carbon than is emitted across the supply chain – is offered as standard on all carpet tile products. In 2025, Interface also added captured carbon to its carpet tile manufacturing processes.

Interface’s latest rubber flooring innovation, noravant timber, has a carbon footprint of just 3.41 kg CO2e/m² – one of the lowest in rubber – combining the performance of rubber flooring with the aesthetics of wood. The company has also created a one-of-a-kind carbon negative nora® rubber prototype.

At end of life, the ReEntry programme prioritises reusing tiles to keep product out of landfill, or recycling used product into something new. In 2025, Interface increased the capacity of its European recycling facility, enabling more post-consumer carpet tiles to be processed and reintroduced into new products.

The results

Interface is now over halfway to meeting its 2030 science-based targets. It has achieved a 42% reduction in Scope 3 emissions from purchased goods and services since its 2019 baseline, increased the use of recycled and bio-based materials to around 51% of total inputs, and now offers more than 450 carbon negative cradle-to-gate ranges globally.

Since 2019, it has cut the carbon footprint of its three major product categories, with a 40% reduction in carpet tile emissions, 24% in rubber flooring and 45% in LVT and other resilient flooring, driven by cleaner energy, lower-carbon materials and a design philosophy that prioritises circularity and carbon storage. Its factories now run on 79% renewable energy, and the company continues to reduce water use, waste and energy intensity year on year.

The ReEntry programme has reclaimed over 96.2 million pounds of used carpet globally, with 11.7 million pounds of post-consumer carpet collected and diverted from landfill in 2025.