2025 was Shred Station's 7th year of achieving annual CarbonNeutral® company and fleet certification.
Shred Station first achieved annual CarbonNeutral® company and fleet certification in January 2019. But that wasn’t enough for us!
In 2024, we went one step further, having our historic internal emissions from our formation in 2008 – 2019’s certification assessed and offset in their entirety. This means we are now lifetime carbon neutral!
How do we keep achieving carbon neutrality?
Every year, we work with Climate Impact Partners and Nature Positive (an RSK company) to assess our annual greenhouse gas emissions. Nature Positive collates all of this data and generates an annual report that details our carbon outputs. We publish this report on our website for full transparency into our emission sources. As well as offsetting all of the required emissions via Climate Impact Partners, we must demonstrate that we are operating in line with The CarbonNeutral Protocol. This protocol is amended each year, ensuring it is up-to-date with all of the latest climate science. For example, one requirement of the protocol is that we must set science-based CO2 reduction targets. Companies with CarbonNeutral certification cannot just ramp up their emissions without making any efforts to reduce them. Shred Station reduces emissions in many ways, for instance:
We have recently added electric HGVs to our fleet
We use HVO in our fuel mix
We have replaced, at the time of writing, 7 diesel forklifts with fully electric models
Our head office is powered by solar
We recycle 100% of the paper we shred and are a Zero to Landfill company
Much more!
You can learn more about our emission reduction processes on our Corporate Social Responsibility page.
While we can’t avoid producing emissions completely, we can and do reduce them wherever we can. For the emissions we can’t yet reduce, we support verified offsetting projects in the places where support is needed most.
Blue Sky Solar, India
The first project we are supporting is Blue Sky Solar. Spread across the states of Uttar Pradesh, Telangana (pictured above), Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat in India, the Blue Sky Solar project generates clean energy for the world’s third-largest polluting country.
