10 Tips to Green Your Home from Top to Bottom

There are lots of ways to make every day an earth-friendly day in your home. The choices you make effect our planet, as do the choices we make as manufacturers at Mohawk.

As the leader in recycled and renewable flooring, we would like to help you make better choices by offering 10 Tips to Green Your Home from Top to Bottom.

1. Look for home products that contain recycled content — like carpeting made from soda bottles. Mohawk takes in 1 out of every 4 plastic bottles recycled in North America  and turns them into Everstrand carpet. This alone makes us the largest recycler in the flooring industry.
2. Use safe, natural and non-toxic cleaners. Your body and wallet will thank you. Mohawk’s FloorCare Essentials™ cleaners are completely non-toxic, ensuring a safer living environment for your family!
3. Ask your power company if they do free energy audits to better understand your energy usage and find ways to improve your efficiency.
4. When choosing hardwoods, look for products containing low volatile organic compounds (VOCs) or look at reclaimed wood options. Mohawk Hardwoods with PureBond® Technology are low-emission products.
5. Switch to low-flow toilets and faucets to decrease your water usage.
6. Make the switch to programmable thermostats and motion detection switches for lights. That way, you’ll only heat and light your house when you need it.
7. When carpeting a room, remember that the carpet's cushion acts as an insulator. Be sure to choose a good one.  Some cushions are even made of recycled products. Our rebond and synthetic cushions are made from at least 90% pre-consumer recycled materials.
8. Buy into your local Community Supported Agriculture program. These organic, local foods are a green and affordable way to feed your family.
9. When replacement time comes around, consider upgrading to high-efficiency windows and appliances as well as compact florescent light bulbs.
10. For an even larger impact, consider an investment in proper insulation. While some of these upgrades may cost a bit more up front, they’ll pay back their investment in a few short years and give you continued energy savings for many more years to come.

Do your homework. Remember, being green is more than just a fashion statement. If you want to incorporate green practices into your life, know the companies that make the green products you buy.

Just because someone says it’s green, doesn’t always mean that it is. Get the facts. Get it in writing. Also, involve your kids — they probably know more about being green than you do.

Selecting products made by truly environmentally responsible manufacturers such as Mohawk go a long way towards protecting the world we live in.

Throughout the website, you can learn more about products Mohawk makes in our own effort to reduce, recycle, reuse, reclaim and renew. Also try incorporating some of our 10 tips in your own efforts.

Doing the right thing takes effort, but we believe that’s best for the environment, your homes, business and for all of us. 

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