Furniture - Office

100% recycled agriculture fiber or
75% recycled aluminum or
70% postconsumer HDPE, total of 95% recycled HDPE or
100% postconsumer PET or
25% postconsumer remanufactured/refurbished components or
16% postconsumer steel with total of 25% recycled steel or
1% postconsumer wood composite with total of 80% recycled wood composite.

Any furniture with steel will readily meet the recycled steel requirement because steel has 25-30% recycled content. Jefferson National Accelerator Lab and Yucca Mountain Project have found several major furniture manufacturers with Federal government sectors (Haworth, Hon Office Furniture, Knoll, and Watson, for example) have office furniture that meets the requirements.

In their Requests for Proposal, Yucca Mountain Project included the following criteria for evaluation: 1) LEED certified manufacturing facility, 2) ISO 14000 certified, 3) ergonomic issues, 4) low mercury lighting, 5) biobased and recycled content, 6) daylight views, 7) minimal packaging, 8) low or no volatile organic compounds released from new components, 9) reusability, and 10) recyclability or disassembly for end use disposition. Yucca Mountain Project found several office furniture manufacturers are LEED and ISO14001 certified.