GreenBiz.com reports that IKEA, the Swedish furniture giant with U.S. headquarters in the Philadelphia suburbs, will start rating its wares with a scorecard as part of its goal to sell more sustainable products.
By 2015, IKEA wants 90 percent of its sales of home items to be classified as "more sustainable," according to its scorecard. To get that mark, products have to have more sustainability aspects than previous versions or similar goods. The scorecard will be an internal tool for guiding product development and purchasing.
In addition, IKEA wants all of its home products to be recyclable or made with renewable or recycled materials. However, it doesn't have exact figures on where it is along that path.
"Today, we have little reliable data on the share of recycled and recyclable materials used for IKEA home furnishing products, but we know that the share of renewable materials remains fairly constant at around 70 percent as cotton and wood are our two most important raw materials," the report says.
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