Hey You is now Climate Positive
As part of our commitment in making our community, environment, and the lands we work on a better place, Hey You, in partnership with Trace, are proud to announce that we’re now a Carbon Positive organisation.
“We’re proud of the fact we’re starting to join the conversations and that we’re taking considerable steps to measure our own carbon footprint and offset that as part of Hey You’s sustainability future strategy.”
Since April, Hey You have been working diligently together on what we have titled ‘Project Green’ which is our goal to work towards becoming a more eco-friendly sustainable company.
That same month, we implemented our “Remove Plastic Lid” initiative, which was a feature that 10,000 of our customers and almost 1,000 merchants welcomed. This has allowed them to ditch the lids, thus reducing the single-use plastic waste consumed everyday.
“As an order-ahead company we felt the need to take action. Being able to offset our emissions is only the beginning of an overall strategy to help our partners, educate and listen to our customers and provide a sustainable service moving forward.”
Going through a business-wide process of measuring our carbon footprint enabled us to have deeper conversations around what preserving the environment means to us internally and how we want to be a part of the change moving forward.
In the last twelve months, Hey You produced 145 tonnes of Co2 which is equivalent to 2,450 shipping containers of pollution. We are committing to offset this through a portfolio of climate projects locally here in Australia and overseas, each of which not only provides carbon credits to offset emissions, but also support UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Hey You will be funding the planting of 827 trees and working towards developing our own sustainable processes in the food technology space. We are currently in talks with companies that champion sustainability within the food and beverage industry and are working on improving the app to have reusable options more readily available for all customers and merchants.
Trace is an Australian-born, female-founded climate-technology company on a mission to reduce the barriers for individuals and businesses to go carbon neutral. We thank Trace specifically, Rachel, Andrew and Gemma for their commitment in helping Hey You achieve this milestone in our Project Green journey.
