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We're the tea and coffee company that loves trees...In 1990 we decided to plant one million trees around the world. The Bettys & Taylors ‘Trees For Life’ appeal seemed the perfect way to give something back to the communities our family business relies on for tea leaves and coffee beans.Nine years later, with the help of our main partner Oxfam and the support of our customers, we planted our millionth tree. But we didn’t stop there. To date, we’ve planted over three million trees on four continents, and donated more than £1 million to Oxfam. Most recently, Yorkshire Tea drinkers helped start planting 211,000 trees in India’s Ganges and Brahmaputra river basins, bringing stability to one of the most disaster prone areas of the world and improving the lives of over 720,000 people. Now we want to do even more. Because of the staggering rate at which our planet’s rainforests are being cut down, planting trees just isn’t enough. Up to 25% of the world’s carbon emissions come from the destruction of these precious trees. The positive impact of protecting them would be phenomenal – so we’re aiming to save as many as possible. And you can help! This really is the biggest thing we’ve ever tried to do, and we need all the support we can get. Simply by drinking Yorkshire Tea or our Taylors of Harrogate tea and coffee you’re helping us already, because every year we donate £100,000 to our Trees For Life charities. You can help us even more by collecting tokens from our tea and coffee packs. Four tokens equals one tree saved, so send as many tokens as you can to Trees For Life, Admail 819, Harrogate, HG1 1AZ PS: Just in case you’re looking for the ‘Trees for Life’ charity based in Findhorn Bay, Scotland, we thought we'd better let you know that you’ll find details of their work in the Caledonian Forest at www.treesforlife.org.uk We're pleased to have been presented with a Queen's Award for Sustainable Development, an award only presented to businesses with strong social and environmental values.
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