Tide bought 3,711 tonnes of carbon removals from Wakefield Biochar in Georgia, US, which is sequestering CO2 durably in biochar. This purchase covers Tide’s carbon emissions period for 1st January 2022 – 31st December 2022.
Wakefield Biochar is an American company that partners with a paper mill. The paper mill turns bark waste into char and Wakefield then turns this into biochar by applying it to degraded land or agricultural land. Without this activity, the carbon would have returned to the atmosphere via combustion. All of the waste material ‘feedstock’ originated from FSC-certified sustainable forestry.
The purchase of 3,500 initial tonnes happened on Friday 6th January 2023, with the remaining 211 tonnes purchased on 27 February 2023.
You can view the retirement statements, certifying us, here: and here.
Groceries - based on the environmental impact of a typical basket of groceries in your country, considering manufacturing, packaging, and transportation.
Fuel purchases - the quantity of fuel is used to precisely calculate the related emissions.
General Stores (i.e., Amazon): for general stores or online retailers like Amazon, we use a weighted basket of goods approach.
These estimates are broad but typically represent a small part of your total carbon footprint.
Categorising transactions by merchant type means we provide a simple way to understand and reduce your carbon footprint based on your spending patterns.
You can help to improve your reports
To get results, ‘Carbon Footprints’ automatically assigns categories to your transactions. To make better estimates, it’s best for you to manually add the most appropriate category to each payment. You can do this in the Tide app:
Tap ‘Payments’ > ‘Transactions’ > select a transaction and choose a category.
You can find tutorials, guides and support, to help you make the most out of ‘Carbon Footprints’, in the ‘Help’ section of the app.
