To offset the carbon emissions that your project creates at any point in the process Through actions like planting trees, growing corals and donating to conservations.

Ensuring carbon neutral manufacture, shipping, website and delivery We are donating to the Woodland Trust to help support the creation, protection and restoration of UK Woodland. We are contributing to the Marine Conservation Society which works to ensure the seas are healthy, clean and protected.

If you use a paper cup at the coffee shop daily, it takes on average an entire tree worth of paper to make those cups a year. By using Hitch, you save a trees worth of cups annually. We also plant a tree when you pledge for a Hitch. We do it through our partnership with One Tree Planted, whose reforestation projects plant trees that clean our air and water, create habitats for biodiversity, and create jobs for social impact.

If you use plastic bottles, much of that plastic isn't recycled but shipped to the developing world, where it ends up in rivers and waterways that flow into the ocean. By using Hitch, you prevent plastic bottles from reaching the ocean. We also prevent 100 plastic bottles from reaching the ocean with every you pledge for a Hitch through our partnership with Plastic Bank. They create impact in areas with high levels of plastic pollution, by supporting people to collect ocean bound plastic and turn it into a currency.

1 million plastic drinks bottles are bought around the world every minute 480 billion plastic bottles are sold worldwide each year 16 billion disposable coffee cups and lids are used each year Fewer than 10% of coffee cups are recycled as their plastic lining makes it difficult and expensive Less than half of the plastic bottles purchased are recycled – the rest end up in landfill sites, burnt or littered and often end up in rivers and waterways that flow into the sea