Bayford shows its green credentials

CUSTOMERS at a Yorkshire company are being offered the chance to offset their carbon footprint through a tree planting scheme.

Wetherby-based fuel distributor Bayford Oil has kick-started the scheme by planting 100 trees which it claims will counteract around 73,000 tonnes of carbon.

Customers will be invited to make donations to fulfil Bayford's target of planting 5,000 trees annually.

They will take root in three planting sites in Yorkshire, Cumbria and North Wales.

Family-run Bayford, which employs 191 people, already has a number of environmentally friendly initiatives in place, including using canal barges to ship 80m litres of fuel from refineries in Hull to its Leeds depot which saves an estimated 5,000 road tanker journeys a year.

Phillip Forbes-Bell, a Bayford environmental management group member, said: “We are working hard to limit the impact our activities have on the environment and we aim to leave a positive legacy for future generations.”