Staff capture and store carbon emissions by planting trees
The Woodland Trust is working in partnership with Royal Mail Group to allow staff to capture and store their carbon emissions through payroll giving
Royal Mail staff use a carbon calculator to work out their annual carbon emissions and compensate for them by planting trees.
The calculator offers tips on how to reduce carbon emissions as it asks an employee about their home energy usage, and car and air travel. It then calculates how many trees will need to be planted to help reduce their carbon footprint.
This is the first time a company’s employees have ever been given the opportunity to mitigate their residual carbon emissions tax free through their wage packets to a charity.
One Royal Mail employee who has already signed up to the scheme is Jason Dixon, 36, in London. He said: “I have often thought about how much carbon I produce but never knew how to find out what it was until this scheme was launched. In my case that's 35 trees a year"