Environmental Pledge

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OUR ENVIRONMENTAL PLEDGE

At Reid, we’re not only concerned with making riding a bike or scooter accessible for everyone, by offering great value at incredibly competitive rates; we want to ensure that the environments and world we love to ride through stays sustainable. That’s why we have decided to make a pledge in taking an active role in tackling climate change, by planting a tree for every bike, scooter, paddle board and kayak we sell.

This means that for every Reid purchased around the world, we will plant a tree in their honour. We have responsibility as a good-manufacturing business to offset the carbon that we are using to make our already sustainable products and what better way to do this than planting a tree. With forests worldwide being chopped down and burnt for the use of man, we want to ensure that our children and our children’s children can still enjoy the outdoors as we have and as nature intended. This is more of a moral obligation for us than a business choice.

Over 300,000 Trees Planted!

MAKING THE BIGGEST IMPACT

To make the biggest impact we can with our tree planting, we have partnered with the amazing edenprojects.org, who will be planting the trees on our behalf. They have planted more than 265 million trees since starting their project and we’re honoured to be the latest partner to contribute to this.

Eden Reforestation Projects is a 501c3 non-profit whose mission is to provide fair wage employment to impoverished villagers as agents of global forest restoration. They hire the poorest of the poor to grow, plant, and guard to maturity native species forest on a massive scale. Their “employ to plant methodology” results in a multiplication of positive socio-economic and environment measures. By the year 2020 their objective is to plant a minimum of 100 million trees each year and to offer hope through the employment of tens of thousands of people in countries where extreme poverty is rampant and we’re glad that we’re able to partner with them this year to make this happen.

OUR DONATIONS HAVE NO STRINGS.

When partnering with edenprojects.org we decide to opt for their preferred method of donation, general planting. This not only allows them to spread the funds to wherever will have the most impact but means we will have the widest impact in planting trees across the globe. In 2020 after just one year of planting we became a Seedling level partner with Eden and we look forward to continuing growing our partnership for years to come. Eden projects are incredible at delivering solutions to help offset carbon emissions as much as possible and they do this most effectively through the planting of mangroves, which is the type of tree we will be planting the most of! Scientific studies have shown that Mangroves “sequester carbon at a rate two to four times greater than mature tropical forests”, and contain “the highest carbon density of all terrestrial ecosystems.” (Fatoyinbo et al, 2017). Mangroves are also key part of coastal ecosystems, and “renowned for an array of ecosystem services, including fisheries and fibre production, sediment regulation, and storm/tsunami protection”. (Donato et al, 2011) The key to mangroves is the large amounts of biomass stored underground in the extensive root system. These roots support the large trees in muddy coastal areas where mangroves thrive. (Komiyama et al, 2008)

FEATURED BY SUBLIME MAGAZINE

On June 11th 2021, we were recognised by Sublime Magazine as one of “12 Cool Sustainable brands” that stood out in their sustainability journey.

“Reid show the world that sustainable, economical and humane aren’t mutually exclusive with performance, beautiful design and the Reid Rider lifestyle. From vintage and commuter bikes to hoverboards and kayaks, they offer products across a range of prices, at incredibly competitive rates, across six continents and over twenty countries. And to sustain the environments in which we live and ride, a tree is planted for every bike, scooter and watersport product sold in partnership with the Eden Reforestation Project.

Reid don’t claim to be better; they claim to be different. When it comes to changing the world, we’re all in this together, because together, we can accomplish more.”

You can read the full article here.

THANK YOU.

We’d just like to thank you for taking your time in reading this whole page and getting down to here, hopefully learning a little bit more about us and taking one step closer to not only getting a Reid for your own, but planting a tree in the process. If you are interested in riding a bike, scooter, paddle board or kayak and sustaining the environments you’ll be riding in by planting a tree, then check out the rest of our site and what we have to offer.