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CLEAN AIR DAY | trentbarton and Co-Treetment Partnership | 16th June 2022

  • By The Co-Treetment Team
  • On June 16, 2022

Absolutely overjoyed to be posting the following details from the announcement from trentbarton on 16th June 2022.

Within the article you’ll see the tremendous efforts of trentbarton over several years to minimise the impact of their operations on the environment.

At Co-Treetment we very much look forward to further collaboration with trentbarton as together we strive for a better environment and cleaner air.

The trentbarton article transcript is as follows:-

We have funded the planting of 330 trees – one for each of our buses – in a new East Midlands woodland to mark today’s Clean Air Day 2022.

We will continue to work with local not-for-profit tree planting venture Co-Treetment to offset some of our fleet emissions as well as underlining our commitment to investing in cleaner, greener public transport to improve air quality.

Co-Treetment, with our help, has planted the 330 Silver Birch saplings at its land near Coalville in Leicestershire.

Matt Newton, our eco champion at our Heanor office, visited the woodland to mark Clean Air Day and to meet Co-Treetment founders Darrell Taylor and Simon Evans.

Darrell said: “It’s great that trentbarton is partnering with us in our mission to plant more trees in the region. Offsetting its carbon footprint locally through planting trees directly absorbing carbon from the atmosphere and reduces the rate of climate change with every additional tree planted.

“With the support of businesses such as trentbarton, Co-Treetment is creating woodland spaces by planting trees to absorb carbon, not just for today but for decades into the future.

“Everybody needs to travel, even if it’s locally – using public transport, buses, trains or cars. It all has an impact, and we all need to do more to try to combat climate change.

“Trees don’t just absorb carbon; they pull water from the ground so that helps prevent flooding. They cleanse the air so if you’re near busy roads you get a better air quality.”

Matt said: “Meeting Darrell and Simon and seeing the new woodlands growing is very inspiring. We will be funding ongoing tree planting in the future because we want to set a good example to other users of fossil fuels.

“We have invested in new, ultra clean buses – each of which is less polluting than a new diesel car. Over the past seven years trentbarton has spent £20 million on greener buses and is exploring zero emission buses for the future.”

The full article is here | https://www.trentbarton.co.uk/news-and-media/our-news/article/cleanairday22

Simon Evans
Darrell Taylor
Keith Cox

Matt Newton of trentbarton (right) alongside Darrell Taylor (centre) and Simon Evans (left) at the mini-forest of 330 tress
The trentbarton mini-forest | June 2022
Pathway through the trentbarton mini-forest | June 2022
View of trentbarton mini-forest from a distance | June 2022

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