Carbon emissions are, unfortunately, inevitable. At Shred Station, we do many things to reduce our emissions, including the use of renewable solar power and operating with a low-emission fleet. For everything we can’t reduce, we offset to zero.
2022 was our fourth year of CarbonNeutral® certification, and each year, we support different projects to offset the emissions we produce.
In 2019, we supported a reforestation project in Uganda. In 2020, we supported renewable energy projects in West India. In 2021, we supported the same projects in West India, plus the Gobi Wind Power Project in China. In 2022, we again supported the development of renewable energy.
Our 2022 project
In 2022, the project Shred Station chose to support is the Chinese Wind Portfolio. This project comprises several wind farms across China. Of those wind farms, our offsets will be done through a site called Fuxin Wind.
China is the world’s largest polluting country, and that is largely due to the country’s heavy reliance on coal. In recent years in China, coal has been the largest source of energy. Renewable energy developments like these are vital in our global fight to limit global warming to 1.5°C.
The Fuxin Wind Farm meets three of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs):
Goal 7 – Affordable and clean energy.
This project reduces local reliance on fossil fuels.
Goal 8 – Decent work and economic growth.
Wind farms contribute to the local economy through the creation of jobs in both full-time operational roles and temporary jobs during the commissioning and construction phase.
Goal 13 – Climate action.
Renewable energy projects result in emission reductions that help to combat climate change.
All of the projects we’ve supported in the past meet at least three of the SDGs, so we’re glad to be supporting another project that operates with these goals in mind.
