A team from Premier has this month planted 600 trees in the Woodland Trust’s Pepper Wood - an area in Fairfield, Bromsgrove, where the operations formed the Worcestershire Carbon Capture programme back in 2008. The programme mitigates the CO2 emissions from the production and distribution of paper and materials purchased from Premier
Pepper Wood now spans 147 acres and is a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI). The Woodland Trust gained possession of the community woodland in the early 1980s and has since bought a plot of land extending the edge of Pepper Wood. Premier and its customers were the first group to take on the open space and begin the work of planting native trees on the newly acquired land. 600 trees were planted by the team of 30 customers on the morning of the 6 December.
Through the Carbon Capture programme, Premier and customers have planted over 400,000 trees across the UK, captured 92,000 tonnes of CO2, and donated over £1.5m to the Woodland Trust since its launch in 2012.