P4D operates within an industry that uses a lot of fuel and although we don't drive the lorries ourselves or fly the airplanes that deliver your parcels, we do contribute to a courier carbon footprint that we'd like to counterbalance as much as we can. In light of this, we give all our customers the option to offset this carbon footprint on every parcel delivery order placed through P4D.
Watch the P4D forest grow!
You can see below how many trees we've planted since the scheme began in May 2011. Each tree is £10.
How does it work?
We calculate how long your parcel will spend on the back of a van or in the air, as well as how much it weighs - say your parcel is going from the UK to Greenland and weighs 10kg, the offset for this parcel delivery would only cost you an extra 35p.
Where does your money go?
If you say yes to offsetting we'll donate your extra pennies to OxTreeGen who give what they call 'tree gifts' to help the planet breathe. One tree for OxTreeGen costs a mere £10 and the trees they plant benefit projects for anything from reforestation or enhancing biodiversity, to reducing soil erosion.
Being more Green
P4D is a fully fledged member of OXCRI (OxTreeGen Carbon Reduction Initiative) and we've already started using some of their suggestions on how to reduce the carbon footprint of our business.
