This month The Alliance for Sustainable Built Environments and Institute for Market Transformation to Sustainability (MTS) announced an educational partnership to advance global sustainable product standards. This will target the building trade, including interior finishing and will aim to eliminate market confusion. The first campaign scheduled is an education program set to define and promote sustainable products.
Here at TRT, we support this type of educational partnership and its messages to help people make a difference. The signs look good; between them these two organizations carry a lot of weight. Alliance is a group of industry leaders who are recognized for leadership in sustainability and MTS is a nonprofit public charity of leading environmental groups, governments and companies.
MTS also administers the Sustainable Materials Rating Technology (SMaRT), a sustainable product standard that covers 80 percent of the world’s products. SMaRT is to products what LEED is to buildings and it offers several levels of certification — Sustainable, Silver, Gold, and Platinum.
Here at The Refinishing Touch we’re pleased to see anything which promotes and educates companies on the necessity and importance of sustainability. We intend to watch this new partnership with interest.
