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Carbon Neutral Door to Door Scheme

We’d like to help your business to reduce its carbon footprint – and our Carbon Neutral Door to Door scheme is an important first step.

This scheme aims to minimise the environmental impact of our Door to Door service for the delivery of unaddressed items. To encourage you to join, we’ll help you to make your mailings more environmentally-friendly. Once this has been achieved, we’ll pay to offset any remaining carbon produced by your mailing. You’ll then be able to use our logo to show your customers that your mailing is carbon neutral. Below are some simple steps to minimise the carbon impact of your mailings.

Helping you to become carbon neutral

If you join this scheme, we’ll help you by:

Evaluating

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We can calculate the CO2 emissions produced by a mailing and how much needs to be offset to make that mailing carbon neutral. We’ve developed a tool that can calculate how much carbon has been produced by the design and print, right through to distribution and delivery.

Minimising

Two
We’ll help you to target your mailing more effectively to improve the efficiency of your campaigns. And adopting the practices outlined in our creative and production requirements section, will help you minimise the carbon impact of your mailing.

Offsetting

Three
Once the carbon impact of the mailing has been reduced as far as possible, and meets our minimum requirements, we’ll help you work out any remaining CO2 emissions from the mailing. Then we’ll pay to offset these emissions.

How does offsetting work?

Once we’ve worked out the remaining CO2 emissions of your mailing, we can translate this into a monetary value. This is the amount that needs to be invested in order to offset the full amount of carbon produced by your mailing. We’ll pay this amount to one of our offset scheme partners such as The Woodland Trust.

Once this money has been paid, your mailing will be carbon neutral – it will have net zero emissions. Net zero emissions does not mean that there will be no impact on the environment, but the impact will have been reduced as far as possible.


What does my business have to do?

To take part in this scheme, we ask you to meet our environmental requirements. These include: 

  • using paper from recycled and sustainable sources 
  • using printers and mailing agents that have recognised environmental accreditation and management schemes in place
  • encouraging consumers to recycle the mail items

You’ll need to sign up to our Terms and Conditions to take part in the scheme.


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