ZERO CARBON

We became the world's first (and still only) Zero Carbon packaging operation in February 2022.
Choose us to reduce your carbon footprint by up to 6%*

*Corrugated postal ecommerce packaging typically represents between 4% - 6% of a retailers total carbon footprint.

above : Fred Lill (left) and Barry Lill (right) celebrate 0.15W/m2 K thermally insulated U value.

Disconnected from mains gas & electricity off the grid, using only clean sustainable renewable energy for our all-electric machines & vehicles, we have completely eradicated our scopes 1 & 2. While this is a world’s first in our industry, we are having to offset our scope 3 (our entire supply chain) until diesel trucks become a rarity on roads.

PLEASE FOLLOW OUR JOURNEY TO NET ZERO

Scope 1

Zero by Eradicating on-site use of gas & oil (was 157t CO2e 2020)

Scope 2

Zero by Switching entirely to renewable energy (was 198t CO2e 2020)

Scope 3

Nil by Entire offset of supply chain since Feb 22. See our certificates here

& More

Committed to planting 1 million mangroves (arguably the worlds best at sequestering carbon) to counteract our entire trading history since 1983.

To understand the 4 steps to NET ZERO. Please study the bottom of this page.
(1. Carbon Neutral → 2. Zero Carbon factory → 3. Zero Carbon Operation → 4. Net Zero)

https://www.theclimatepledge.com/us/en
Our partnership with Amazon and The Climate Pledge is a commitment for businesses and organizations to take collective action on the world’s greatest crisis. Lil packaging were the 83rd global Signatory committed to reaching net-zero carbon emissions by 2040—10 years ahead of the Paris Agreement. [Some of the 400 global signatories pictured below.]

We joined the Climate Pledge on April 21, 2021. Read More.

Discovering our 2020 footprint

How we achieved a ZERO CARBON footprint

4 steps to meet the NET-ZERO packaging definition

While we are proud to be leading the path to NET-ZERO, we are at step 3 of the 4 step journey to NET-ZERO illustrated below.

Having achieved ZERO-CARBON OPERATION, it is unlikely that any business will become NET-ZERO before 2030.

The SBTi's (science based targets initiative) clarification of NET-ZERO is that we must also achieve a 95% reduction
in our scope 3 supply chain (against our baseline 2020) to reduce reliance of offsets to only the most unsolvable cases.
Choosing suppliers with a shared net-zero vision is of paramount importance.
To learn more, see: https://sciencebasedtargets.org/net-zero

Step 1

Carbon Neutrality

(offset scopes 1 & 2) -simple £500 offset. No effort to reduce emissions.

Step 2

Zero-Carbon Factory

(ZERO scope 1 & 2) -Investment to reduce your own 'in-house' emissions.

Step 3

Zero-Carbon Operation

(ZERO scope 1&2, offset 3) - Leap to offset scope 3, typically 95% of footprint.

Step 4

Net-Zero

(ZERO scope 1&2, 95% reduced scope 3 to offset) Lil 10% reduced scope 3 to date.

We need a further 85% reduction scope 3 (since our baseline year 2020) to achieve the SBTi NET-ZERO definition.
We hope to achieve this by our 50th anniversary (2033) having been established our father & founder Roger Lill in 1983.