As a part of its commitment to the Carbon Capture scheme, Kall Kwik in Oxford has taken part in a tree planting day in Heartwood Forest, Hertfordshire. More than 3,000 trees were planted at a site which is set to become the UK’s biggest continuous new native woodland.
From April to December 2014 the Oxford Kall Kwik helped capture 3503kg of carbon under the scheme. Its director Christine Herbert joined over 150 other businesses at Heartwood Forest, which is a ‘Woodland Carbon Site’ in St. Albans, where they planted trees including Oak, Alder, Willow, Wild Cherry, Rowan, Holly, Beech and Hazel.
Herbert said: “By sourcing trees from properly managed forests and then balancing the carbon emissions created during the paper making process through helping to create new native woodlands, significant amounts of carbon will be removed from the atmosphere and stored.
“This company has signed up to the Woodland Trust’s Woodland Carbon scheme and keeps a record of the total estimated emissions produced. As a result the number of new trees required to absorb the equivalent amount of gas is planted in days like the one I have just taken part in.
The UK government has a target of reducing carbon emissions to 50% of the levels they were at in 1990 by 2025. It is calculated that 25m² of native UK woodland will capture and store one tonne of CO2 and creating large areas of new native woodland, will, over time, remove hundreds of thousands of tonnes of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.