Pallet-Track has become a Carbon Certified Business, underlining our ongoing commitment to becoming carbon neutral.

As a pallet network, we’re making major investments in reducing the environmental impact of our operation.

We are proud to be the first UK pallet network to accurately measure, monitor and reduce our Scope 1, 2 and 3 carbon emissions, based on the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol and requirements of ISO 14064-1:2018, with the aim of becoming carbon neutral verified by Natural Carbon Solutions (NCS).

Pallet-Track has partnered with carbon reduction specialists Eight Versa, a consultancy specialising in the quantification of environmental performance, to develop a roadmap to help our achieve our sustainability goals.

Carbon baseline exercise

Eight Versa has enabled Pallet-Track to complete a carbon baseline exercise, calculating the company’s emissions for the calendar year 2023 at 6,449.3 tCO2e.

The 3.8 million pallet movements Pallet-Track completed in 2023 were analysed as part of our Scope 3 emissions, including all miles travelled to collect and deliver freight.

The analysis highlighted a saving of 64 million miles thanks to the strategic locations of our regional hubs, which include a northern and southern hub, in addition to our central hub in Wolverhampton.

Becoming carbon neutral

Thomas Olsson, chief technical officer at Pallet Track, said: “We are proud to underline our commitment to the environment and to be taking a transparent approach to measuring, and actively reducing, our carbon emissions.

“Pallet-Track is proud to be on its journey to becoming a Carbon Certified Business; we see this as an opportunity to improve and future-proof our operations, while leading the way for the pallet sector.

“We are the first network to accurately calculate our Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions throughout every area of the business, which has provided us with a true picture of our carbon baseline.

“We are now developing a robust carbon reduction plan with ambitious annual targets to be implemented in 2025.”

Stuart Godman, CEO at Pallet-Track, said: “As a responsible network, we have invested heavily in understanding the environmental impact of our business and how we can work towards reducing that impact over time.

“Our carbon reduction plan supports the work undertaken by many of our shareholder members, and we will continue to work together to support each other as the Pallet-Track network continues to lead the way towards sustainable carbon neutrality.”

Pallet-Track has a shareholder member network of more than 90 distribution specialists, which transport palletised freight across the UK.