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)
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.]
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.
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.