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Article: Linoleum, rubber + polymeric floors: providing sustainable flooring options for residential and commercial applications.
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- Environmental Design & Construction
- Article date:
- March 1, 2003
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Increasingly, designers and specifiers are searching for intelligent product choices that pose fewer threats to the environment. As a result, they put high priority on sustainable floor covering options and environmentally friendly products for both commercial and residential installations.
Technology and design have combined to expand the selection and use of linoleum, rubber floors/cove wall base/treads and polymeric floor coverings. The fact that these products are biodegradable meets important environmental requirements. In addition, there have been, and continues to be, pacesetting breakthroughs in how the products are produced and in the ingredients that go ...