Carbon

• How Do You Offset Carbon?

  We support a portfolio of UN-backed projects to help companies and individuals combat the increase in carbon emissions and take a stand against climate change. Each project is vetted and verified by the UN to ensure its validity and quality. By funding these projects and absorbing a specific amount of carbon related to your carbon footprint, you can counteract your emissions to reduce your overall environmental impact. You can read about our currently supported projects below: UN ProjecFew readers

Trees

• Where Are You Planting Trees?

  We work in partnership with Eden Reforestation Projects & EarthLungs Mangrove Restoration Project. Currently, we are supporting a site in Honduras and Kenya, which is where all our trees are currently being planted. The trees we plant are made up of diverse native species to ensure the greatest benefit to the environment possible. Their planting also supports local communities with fair wages to plant and protect the trees. We focus on this region as trees grown here have a greater potential fFew readers

Plastic

• How Is My Plastic Rescued?

  We have partnered with Plastic Bank to rescue plastic from areas in South East Asia hit hardest by the plastic pollution crisis. Local communities are employed with a fair living wage to retrieve plastic from the landscape. It can then be recycled into new products, avoiding the need for new plastic.Few readers

• What Do You Mean By Ocean-Bound Plastic?

  By definition, ocean-bound plastic is ‘plastic waste at risk of ending up in the ocean’. This doesn’t just include bottles floating on the surface water or microbeads from personal care products, but any ‘abandoned plastic waste’ that falls within 50km of shores where there is no (or inefficient) waste management.Few readers

• How Can I Trust The Projects You Support Benefit People and The Planet?

  We have two levels of authentication to ensure we're as transparent as possible. Firstly we only work with highly vetted, verified and accredited projects. They're all UN accredited and continually audited to ensure they are delivering the impact that they report. Our second layer of transparency is our public ledger, which can be found in your dashboard and at the link here. This shows an open record of all the transactions between us and thoseFew readers

• How Can I Trust Greenspark To Ensure My Money Reaches The Projects I Support?

  Greenspark is not simply an app in the app store, we're a VC-backed business operating with a team of experienced entrepreneurs who are working to reshape the way businesses across the world take sustainable action. Our investors have done extensive due diligence on us to ensure that we operate within the best interests of our customers and the projects we partner with. We also strive to be as transparent as possible with our customers. We keep a public ledger of every payment we have made toFew readers

• What Happens To Impact If A Customer Returns An Item

  At the moment, this will not effect the impact made on the item when purchased. The impact would remain the same e.g. a tree was planted on the basis of an order, the order has been returned, however that impact of one tree planted will remain.Few readers