Sustainably Minded
When we set out to create a tile collection, we know that beautiful design isn’t enough on its own. True innovation requires us to rethink the entire lifecycle of a product. Here is how we apply cutting-edge sustainability principles directly into the DNA of many of our tiles.
Materials
FACT tiles are made from (PET) felt that contains 60% pre-consumer recycled content. You can recycle 100% of your FACT products. Even our hardware is made of PET.
Design for Disassembly (DfD)
Design for Disassembly treats a building or product as a "material bank" rather than a permanent fixture. By utilizing interlocking tabs, our tiles can be easily installed, taken down, and reconfigured. When a space is ready for a redesign, the tiles aren't destined for the landfill. They can be effortlessly disassembled, cleanly separated, and fully recovered or repurposed.Almost-Zero-Waste Manufacturing.
Efficiency Through "Nesting" and Pattern Optimization
In product design, waste often happens before the product even leaves the factory floor. Zero waste design uses computational nesting to eliminate off-cuts. The striking, organic shapes of our tiles aren't just visually appealing. They are mathematically optimized. Before a single blade or laser touches our raw materials, advanced software strategically "nests" the tile profiles together on the manufacturing sheet like a perfectly solved puzzle. This hyper-efficient layout virtually eliminates negative space and off-cuts, ensuring that all material is utilized and factory-floor waste is stopped before it even starts.
Shipping
Our uniquely compact, flat-pack shipping reduces waste and shrinks the carbon footprint of transporting FACT products to you.
Community
We’re proud to contribute sustainability-focused manufacturing jobs to the town of Sweetwater, Tennessee.
Supporting small rural communities in the US helps to strengthen their economies and provide better quality of life.
Plus, it’s just the right thing to do.
Transparency
DECLARE LBC Red List Free
WELL Building Standard v1
Feature 26 for Enhanced Material Safety
WELL v2
Feature 13 Enhanced Material Precaution
Feature 14 Material Transparency
LEED v4 and v4.1 Building Product Disclosure and Optimization Credit, Option 1
Intertek Clean Air GOLD Certified
VOC CDPH 01350 tested
Overall B Impact Score
Based on the B Impact assessment, FACT Design, LLC earned an overall score of 84.3. The median score for ordinary businesses who complete the assessment is currently 50.9.84.3
84.3 Overall B Impact Score
80 Qualifies for B Corp Certification
50.9 Median Score for Ordinary Businesses
Governance 16.8
Governance evaluates a company's overall mission, engagement around its social/environmental impact, ethics, and transparency. This section also evaluates the ability of a company to protect their mission and formally consider stakeholders in decision making through their corporate structure (e.g. benefit corporation) or corporate governing documents.
Mission & Engagement 2.9
Ethics & Transparency 3.9
+ Mission Locked 10
What is this? A company with an Impact Business Model is intentionally designed to create a specific positive outcome for one of its stakeholders - such as workers, community, environment, or customers.
Workers 18.5
Workers evaluates a company’s contributions to its employees’ financial security, health & safety, wellness, career development, and engagement & satisfaction. In addition, this section recognizes business models designed to benefit workers, such as companies that are at least 40% owned by non-executive employees and those that have workforce development programs to support individuals with barriers to employment.
Financial Security 9.8
Health, Wellness, & Safety 3.6
Career Development 2.8
Engagement & Satisfaction 1.3
Community 20.2
Community evaluates a company’s engagement with and impact on the communities in which it operates, hires from, and sources from. Topics include diversity, equity & inclusion, economic impact, civic engagement, charitable giving, and supply chain management. In addition, this section recognizes business models that are designed to address specific community-oriented problems, such as poverty alleviation through fair trade sourcing or distribution via microenterprises, producer cooperative models, locally focused economic development, and formal charitable giving commitments.
Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion 5.0
Economic Impact 3.4
Civic Engagement & Giving 5.0
Supply Chain Management 3.6
Environment 24.9
Environment evaluates a company’s overall environmental management practices as well as its impact on the air, climate, water, land, and biodiversity. This includes the direct impact of a company’s operations and, when applicable its supply chain and distribution channels. This section also recognizes companies with environmentally innovative production processes and those that sell products or services that have a positive environmental impact. Some examples might include products and services that create renewable energy, reduce consumption or waste, conserve land or wildlife, provide less toxic alternatives to the market, or educate people about environmental problems.
Environmental Management 5.3
Air & Climate 3.8
Water 2.6
Land & Life 5.8
Toxin Reduction / Remediation 7.2
What is this? A company with an Impact Business Model is intentionally designed to create a specific positive outcome for one of its stakeholders - such as workers, community, environment, or customers.
Customers 3.7
Customers evaluates a company’s stewardship of its customers through the quality of its products and services, ethical marketing, data privacy and security, and feedback channels. In addition, this section recognizes products or services that are designed to address a particular social problem for or through its customers, such as health or educational products, arts & media products, serving underserved customers/clients, and services that improve the social impact of other businesses or organizations.
Customer Stewardship 3.7
FACT products hold a Declare™
Red List Free certification.
