Urban Edge strive to use the most eco friendly products available, with companies like Marazzi, Ragno, Rex & Mutina leading the way. For Marazzi & Ragno, loving ceramics has always meant respecting the environment, in the sense of the human and natural landscape.

As a consequence, Marazzi has become a standard-bearer for eco-sustainable industry and helped to make ceramic tile production a closed-cycle process. Throughout the entire process, from raw material quarrying to the final use of its tiles, Marazzi has developed a system for the collection and reuse of reject output, process waste water and the raw materials it contains, and the heat generated in a number of phases.

With Rex, many of the tile collections part of the Rex brands contain, in their mix, significant amounts of pre-consumer recycled material.

LEED® - Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design

To enable concrete quantification and correct monitoring of the degree of sustainability achieved by a building project, in 1999 the USGBC established a certification procedure for the development of sustainable buildings called the LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design)

Marazzi Group S.p.A. is a member of the Green Building Council Italia*, the association that promotes the culture of sustainable, energy-efficient, environment-friendly construction and helps to improve people’s quality of life by means of the LEED certification standard. The LEED standards set the prerequisites for the construction of eco-compatible buildings capable of operating in a sustainable way, and self-sufficient in energy. Developed in the United States, LEED certification has now spread to 40 nations worldwide with over 1,500 certified projects and certification underway for a further 12,000.

Ecolabel

European Union environmental quality mark, obtained by Marazzi in 2004, awarded to products which meet and comply with environmental standards, such as the rational use of energy resources and natural resources, low atmospheric and waste water emissions, waste management and more effective consumer information.