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Shaw Floors

Evaluation Completed: 
March 16, 2025
Adults
Bathroom
Bedroom
Kitchen
Home Improvement
Renovating
Moving

Shaw Floors is owned by the company Shaw Industries. Hilde evaluates parent companies rather than individual brands.  You can read more about why we think this approach is more helpful for consumers on our blog.

Shaw Industries makes lots of different kinds of residential, commercial and industrial flooring products. For purposes of this evaluation, we’re focused on the residential flooring products including carpet, rugs, and resilient flooring. Our research on Shaw turned up some strong performance in terms of safety and sustainability practices. We are particularly impressed with their work on both environmental as well as social impact and treating people fairly.

Hilde Status:

Avoid

Consider

Recommended

We try to avoid purchasing or using products made by this company or their brands in our homes.
We may decide to purchase or use products made by this company or their brands in our homes when other options are not accessible.
We regularly try to purchase and use products made by this company or their brands in our homes.
Hilde Ratings
Topic
Rating
Ingredient Safety
Environmental impact
People Benefits
Governance
Hilde Approved Certifications
Forest Stewardship Council
Cradle to Cradle
Hilde Likes

Good focus on people issues

Leadership in producer responsibility

Public disclosure and reporting

Solid foundation on ingredient safety

Using circular design thinking

Opportunities for Improvement

Engaging in public policy advocacy

Aligning political activities

Benchmarking ingredient safety practices

Adopting a context-based approach to sustainability

Bolder action on climate impacts

Additional Information
Parent Company:
Shaw Industries
Owned Brands:
None
Product Types:
Carpet, rugs, resilient flooring

Evaluation Summary

Basic
Advanced
Leadership
Foundational Gaps

The company does not meet sufficient baseline criteria for this category and has many opportunities for improvement.

Solid Baseline

The company meets most of our basic criteria and sometimes demonstrates a deeper commitment than other companies on issues in this category.

Strong Performance:

The company appears to be a top performer in this evaluation category and exhibits leadership on one or more of the issues we evaluate.

Hilde Likes

Solid foundation on ingredient safety

This company appears to do a good job covering the basics and is ready to tackle more advanced topics related to ingredient safety

Opportunities for Improvement

Benchmarking ingredient safety practices

We would like to see this company participate in the Chemical Footprint Policy to help benchmark their policies and practices against other companies publicly share their results

Foundational Gaps

The company does not meet sufficient baseline criteria for this category and has many opportunities for improvement.

Solid Baseline

The company meets most of our basic criteria and sometimes demonstrates a deeper commitment than other companies on issues in this category.

Strong Performance:

The company appears to be a top performer in this evaluation category and exhibits leadership on one or more of the issues we evaluate.

Hilde Likes

Leadership in producer responsibility

This brand appears to be setting an example in their industry through a dedicated product takeback program. Bravo!

‍

Using circular design thinking

We appreciate that this company appears to be integrating more circular approaches to designing and making products and packaging to help reduce environmental impacts

Opportunities for Improvement

Bolder action on climate impacts

The company should start measuring and reducing Scope 3 emissions along with publishing a decarbonization transition plan

Foundational Gaps

The company does not meet sufficient baseline criteria for this category and has many opportunities for improvement.

Solid Baseline

The company meets most of our basic criteria and sometimes demonstrates a deeper commitment than other companies on issues in this category.

Strong Performance:

The company appears to be a top performer in this evaluation category and exhibits leadership on one or more of the issues we evaluate.

Hilde Likes

Good focus on people issues

This company appears to have a holistic approach to treating people well including a credible responsible sourcing process to help protect human rights for workers in their supply chain

Opportunities for Improvement
None Identified
Foundational Gaps

The company does not meet sufficient baseline criteria for this category and has many opportunities for improvement.

Solid Baseline

The company meets most of our basic criteria and sometimes demonstrates a deeper commitment than other companies on issues in this category.

Strong Performance:

The company appears to be a top performer in this evaluation category and exhibits leadership on one or more of the issues we evaluate.

Hilde Likes

Public disclosure and reporting

This company provides helpful disclosure on their efforts through annual reporting on sustainability or ESG topics for consumers or other stakeholders

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Opportunities for Improvement

Engaging in public policy advocacy

This company could be very helpful in advancing public policies that protect people and the planet if they decided to lend their voice and expertise

Aligning political activities

We would like to see this company undertake and publicly disclose the outcomes of efforts to evaluate and align their political activities, issue advocacy, and trade association memberships with their publicly stated values and policies

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