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Climate
How we run our business to reduce our environmental impact
5,211,574
37%
6ktCO2e
Otrium saved 5,411,574 clothes from being destroyed.
Shopping with Otrium saves 37% in carbon emissions.
In 2022 Otrium prevented at least 6ktCO₂e and 10 kt of waste.
Overview
A carbon footprint measures the amount of released into the atmosphere as a result of the things a person, organisation or community does.
A carbon footprint is measured in terms of tons of
The smaller your carbon footprint, the smaller
the impact on the environment and
Our ambition is to reduce our carbon footprint to become
Net Zero in 2030 in line with
the Science Based Targets initiative.
We plan on reaching this goal by doing three things:
- 1
Report our impact to reduce carbon and keep track of our progress.
- 2
Reduce our impact by making operational changes that lower emissions per session on our platform, items sold and employees.
- 3
Remove the carbon by investing in carbon removal technologies for the carbon we can’t avoid or emitted in the past.
What Otrium did about this
- Returned clothes destroyed 758,084
- Unworn, unsold clothes destroyed2,742,254
The increase in our emissions was two-fold: company growth and adding more data points to our CO2 calculation. Now,
with a more rigorous data set we’re able to get a better understanding of our impact; and this dataset proved that
our two highest CO2 emission sources were couriers (last
mile logistics) and packaging material.
In 2022 we identified two opportunities to reduce our impact (by using the Trias energetica framework,
created by TU Delft):
- The amount of CO2 - eq in kg, saved per shipment by using recycled paper envelopes instead of boxes to package orders.0.457
- The number of poly bags saved by piloting plastic free shipping (removing the plastic bags that protect individual items within an order).10K
- The amount of tons of CO2 emissions eq - offset by purchasing removal credits through Patch.758,084
FUTURE
FUTURE
Looking to the future
Report
Build a CO2 dashboard (powered by Vaayu) to monitor data in real time, as opposed to annually.
Set approved Science Based Targets.
Reduce
Pilot collaboration with couriers with a lower carbon footprint to reduce our last mile logistics impact.
Roll out fit-to-size packaging to optimise space during transport.
Remove
Remove our carbon footprint for the year 2021.