The act of moving lots of consumer goods around the country each day via shipping services like UPS typically use up a lot of resources while at the same time contributing to pollution. UPS wants to empower you to do something about that by offering up the option to offset the CO2 emissions generated by the transport of packages within the United States.
UPS introduced this program today, allowing shippers the option of paying a small fee to calculate and offset the climate impact of the shipment of each of their packages. Flat fee prices will vary depending upon what shipping option you are using, ranging from “$0.05 for UPS Ground services and $0.20 for UPS Next Day Air®, UPS 2nd Day Air® and UPS 3 Day Select® services.” These offsets consumers purchase, plus up to an intial $1 million UPS will match, are ultimately invested into projects such as wastewater treatment, methane destruction and landfill gas destruction. This program will initially be available, said UPS, to the roughly 1 million U.S. customers who use UPS Internet Shipping with their UPS account number.
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