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Cheaper carbon offsetting: If you would like to go green and carbon offset your holiday flight or long distance car journey. Then this is the cheaper (excuse the pun) carbon offsetting scheme, which suites the UK.

It actually costs you nothing, its free you cannot get any cheaper than that..

So to Carbon offset your holiday, choose one of the options below:

For example, a return trip from London to Lanzarote for 2 people created 1.64 tonnes of carbon and will cost £15.00 to offset. If you were paying to offset it.

Which is equal to 2 trees.. well 2 trees will actually save 2.5 tonnes of co2.. but you get the point.

So as a guide: To offset your carbon emissions to European destinations from the UK for one person is just one tonne of co2. Which equals 1 tree.

Offset your carbon emissions of up to 3.3 tonnes which is the equivalent to a return flight from London Heathrow to Miami for one person

Offset your carbon emissions of up to 6 tonnes which is equivalent to a return flight from London Gatwick to Perth Australia for one person.

Now then instead of being ripped off by paying £15 per tonne per passenger on flights, just do this:

Go to your nearest wood and get hold of some acorns pine cones etc and plant a few trees, say 2 per tonne..

Now your all green and the cost Zero just a bit of fresh air…

The benefits to the UK? We get bigger forests more trees now that cannot be bad.