A major transport museum is taking action to compensate for carbon emissions from its vehicles by subscribing to a scheme in which trees are planted. West Midlands-based Transport Museum Wythall (TMW) has signed up to a carbon balancing project run by the Federation of British Historic Vehicle Clubs (FBHVC) in conjunction with Tree–V.
The museum has been ‘carbon capturing’ emissions from buses and coaches used on running day services and special events along with a pick-up service from the local railway station. It has been calculated that the museum has 4,500 miles a year which need to be balanced, meaning 13 trees needing to be planted to compensate.
TMW spokesman Denis Chick said the museum wanted to ‘do its bit’ and encouraged other organisations to join the FBVHC/Tree-V scheme. The museum said it has chosen this particular route as it means that new forests will be planted in the UK, as opposed to carbon offsetting, which is the protection of established forests overseas.
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Denis added: “As members of the historic vehicle movement we have all probably experienced some form of criticism for the emissions coming from our vehicles. However, even though our overall impact is minimum, as a museum there is a role we can play in helping to tackle such criticism and that is by taking part in a scheme like this. By ensuring emissions associated with our museum’s activities are tackled we can fight back against the naysayers.
“By balancing out the emissions from miles travelled, we have mitigated the only real carbon footprint our vehicle has, meaning we have some of the greenest vehicles on the road.”
Tom’s Wood
Founded in 1988, the FBHVC represents the interests of more than 500 classic vehicle clubs. Museums, trade supporters and individual owners across the classic vehicle movement. Working with carbon offsetting company Tree-V, FBHVC has put together what is says a simple to use, but highly effective way for its members to carbon capture their historic vehicle’s emissions.
All they have to do is to submit the mileage covered and for a small fee trees will be planted to compensate for the carbon emissions. A sticker is sent for the owner to display on their vehicle celebrating their participation. Planting is taking place at Tom’s Wood in North Yorkshire, a new native woodland which will eventually contain 28,112 trees.
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