Milliken Carpet Goes PVC Free in 1986
Milliken Carpet committed to eliminate PVC 19 years ago in 1986. As a result, more than 757 million pounds of PVC were removed from the production and disposal cycle. The company maintains the world’s largest textile research facility encouraging green innovations and notes in this 2005 memo that, “Changing chemistries from a PVC backing was the right step environmentally and it challenged Milliken to develop more sustainable innovations.”
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