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When Harriet Anderson Langford and Allie Kelly drive the stretch of I-85 in West Georgia known as the Ray C. Anderson Memorial Highway, they see plenty of their own handiwork to admire.
The highway is named for Langford’s dad, Ray Anderson, the founder of carpet manufacturer Interface and an advocate for sustainability. The nonprofit made in his honor, called the Ray, works to make the road more sustainable, with pollinator-friendly wildflowers on the roadside, longer-lasting rubberized pavement, and at one exit, solar panels.
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