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Our All-Electric Fleet
Our All-Electric Fleet
We're building

the largest

all-electric delivery fleet in the UK, in double quick time.

We now have over 700 electric vehicles operating throughout England, Scotland and Wales, and continue our ambitious growth and investment in these vehicles to deliver clean, emission free on the streets of our cities.

Our All-Electric Fleet
Why not
100% electric now?

DPD has ambitious plans to rapidly increase its electric vehicle fleet, but we can’t do it alone: we need manufacturers, the utilities industry, and Government (both local and national) to work together to help fast-track the introduction of all-electric fleet vehicles and their charging points.

The 3.5t electric vans we want to use are coming to market, although they are typically £20,000 more expensive per vehicle compared to the diesel equivalent, and not available in the number we require.

DPD is experiencing challenges, with vehicle manufacturers preferring to produce left-hand drive all–electric vehicles to cater for larger European markets. The UK and Ireland are among the few European countries to use right-hand drive vehicles, and data from the European Automobile Manufacturers Association shows that in 2015 the UK and Ireland accounted for 14% of registered vans on the road. This fact clearly shows the potential market size for right-hand vehicles, and we call on manufacturers to make more right-hand vehicles; join our campaign voice at #needmoreelectric

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Our All-Electric Fleet
Our fleet

DPD has a carefully selected wide range of electric vehicles, from cargo bikes to 7.5t vehicles. Each vehicle type has a special role to perform; click on each one to see its full story.

EAV P1
Vehicles: 4 | Deliveries per week: 1,875
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Paxster
Vehicles: 25 | Deliveries per week: 9,000
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Nissan e-NV
Vehicles: 575 | Deliveries per week: 234,233
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Peugeot ePartner
Vehicles: 5 | Deliveries per week: 2,000
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Mercedes eVito
Vehicles: 8 | Deliveries per week: 6,000
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Mitsubishi FUSO eCanter
Vehicles: 2 | Deliveries per week: 200
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MAN eTGE
Vehicles: 100 | Deliveries per week: 60,000
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Our All-Electric Fleet
What we're doing to

charge up

We’re looking at managing our electricity so we don’t place more demand on the grid as we deploy our electric fleet. By lowering our consumption of electricity in other areas, we can ensure we have capacity to charge vehicles on our own sites.

Our All-Electric Fleet

Home charge

With 10% of DPD's fleet all-electric our drivers clearly need an affordable and user-friendly electric vehicle charging point installed at their homes. DPD has partnered with Pod Point, an electric vehicle charging supplier, to ensure our drivers get access to an easy, fast and affordable solution.

With Pod Point, our drivers simply request a home charger to be installed, and their Level 1 nationwide suppliers respond.

DPD also helps drivers to complete the government paperwork to ensure they receive a £350 grant towards set-up. DPD contributes a further £350 towards the drivers’ home charger's meaning they typically do not have to pay anything towards the charger, and it is theirs to own.

This simple process and financial support help to encourage wider electric vehicle deployment by making switching to an electric vehicle as simple as possible for our drivers.

Smart urban delivery
Smart Urban Delivery
Smart Urban Delivery
Changing the

urban landscape

DPD wants to deliver emission free in cities, so we’re creating a network of all-electric micro-depots so that our all-electric vehicles are located closer to our customers. Shoppers will also get their next-day delivery in a cleaner, quieter and more sustainable way.

Smart Urban Delivery
Why not more

micro-depots

in our cities?

The type of properties we need for micro-depots are hard to get in our city centres because of the high demand for the land or buildings for both business and residential use.

To help us create an all-electric micro-depot network we need stakeholders and property companies to give us access to new city centre locations.

Some people say why not take delivery depots out of the city, but that isn’t the answer as it just means vehicles have to drive longer distances and we have to use more of them, so there would be more vehicles on the road. What we want is fewer vehicles with more parcels on board, and a micro-delivery depot network is the best way to facilitate this.

Smart Urban Delivery
Our

micro-depot plan

We have four all-electric micro-depots and plans to open seven as soon as the sites become available. We’ll look at underground car parks or any other site property owners and occupiers can offer; we are really thinking out of the box to find answers to clean, green urban delivery.

Of course, it’s not just about London; we want to work closely with local authorities up and down the country to develop a network of city centre final mile micro-depots.

View our plan here
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Smart Urban Delivery
Introducing

Westminster

urban depot

2018 saw the opening of DPD Westminster, an all-electric micro-depot that not only makes final mile outbound deliveries using all–electric vehicles, but also takes inbound parcels from our London City depot on all-electric Fuso eCanter 7.5t vehicles.

DPD Westminster was the first of our series of micro-depots in London and is part of a larger plan to expand the micro-depot model across the capital and the rest of the UK.

Watch the opening of our first all-electric depot in Westminster. It was a real game-changer, with both the deliveries in and out of the depot being made by all-electric vehicles.

WATCH THE DEPOT OPENING FILM HERE

DPD FACT: We deliver to Her Majesty the Queen and the Prime Minister on all-electric vehicles!

Smart Urban Delivery

Shoreditch depot

DPD Shoreditch opened its doors in converted railways arches in October 2018. The 6,000ft2 depot makes final mile deliveries on its all-electric fleet into EC postcodes, allowing DPD to access high levels of delivery density with short mileages.

The Shoreditch depot is a great example of DPD repurposing under-utilised and under-occupied space for intelligent final mile operations that enable large scale electric vehicle deployment. DPD secured the site on a 12 year lease, showing its commitment to developing the micro-distribution strategy.

In Peak 2020 (November to December), the depot reached its highest ever delivery volume, delivering 4,036 parcels in one day from the small but well located sites, and the depot management team celebrated this milestone, as shown in the picture here.

Smart Urban Delivery

Hyde Park

depot

On the 3rd November 2020 DPD opened a final mile micro depot operating from 8,000ft2 in the Q-Park car park located on Park Lane.

The depot extends DPD’s all-electric London proposition to three sites, with Hyde Park, working to service key delivery areas around Oxford Street.

The site took 15 months to get the go ahead following a complex and arduous legal process involving Westminster City Council and the Department for Transport (DfT). Once permission was given DPD acted quickly and opened the site within two weeks.

The site is a great example of innovative thinking around property types and uses by DPD to show how repurposing under-utilised and unoccupied buildings can deliver zero-emission benefits for the residents of London.

Smart Urban Delivery

Hull depot

In July 2020 DPD launched its first urban micro depot outside London in the heart of Kingston-upon-Hull.

Our depot that delivered throughout Hull was located closer to Goole, which is over 28 miles away and meant all-electric vehicles would be on the edge of their mileage range after completing a normal delivery day.

Our strategy to ensure that our drivers could fulfil their deliveries in all-electric vehicles and we could ensure 10% of our deliveries were on all-electric vehicles in every depot across the UK presented us with a challenge and in response we opened this depot to serve Hull city.

As a result, we have reduced the number of diesel vans operating in the city and the unproductive stem mileage by 896 miles per day!

Smart Urban Delivery
Driving

fewer miles

We send a quarter of a billion Predict one hour delivery notifications each year to let customers know when to expect us, which has stopped 4.5 million extra journeys; that’s 3.5 million fewer miles travelled and 1,255 tonnes of CO2 not being needlessly generated.

What's more, with the DPD app we offer customers a range of in-flight options, so if they can't be there to receive their parcel, they have a choice of options to make sure they still get their parcel, and DPD doesn't have to make another journey.

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Smart Urban Delivery
We'll tell our customers

when we're coming

We’ll send a green notification when we deliver using an electric vehicle, showcasing we’ve delivered in the cleanest way possible. In 2020 we delivered 11.2 million parcels on our all-electric fleet, emission free.

Smart Urban Delivery
Innovation

delivering

We love innovation, especially where it makes sense environmentally. Our drivers’ handheld units guide them to every address using the shortest possible route.

This technology does not come cheap, but having the latest technology means our drivers are super-efficient on their routes, and that means travelling fewer miles and generating less CO2.

This year we've travelled 649,000 fewer miles with our new cutting-edge route-control software.

In fact, we've reduced CO2 emissions by over 200 tonnes, the equivalent to planting 800 trees.

Quantum 2.0 will be more efficient in planning routes, taking out unnecessary routes and reducing the amount of vehicles on the road. Consolidated stops will only be planned on just one driver. Currently with Cito we may run 2, or even three drivers into the same delivery stop. New mapping software (for next year) will enable stops to be planned on a map, reducing potential mileages on routes rather than being constrained by postcodes.

Smart Urban Delivery
More right first time

deliveries

The stats don’t lie: we are delivering right first time 99.8% of the time, which means fewer return journeys and fewer miles travelled.

It's this great level of service that has led to DPD topping the Money Saving Expert poll for seven years running and being voted the UK's favourite parcel delivery company.

Air Quality Monitoring
Air Quality Monitoring
DPD Air Quality Monitoring
Measuring

air pollution
throughout our cities.

Project BREATHE is our air monitoring programme. We first rolled this out in London in August, installing over 100 fixed and mobile sensors. These sensors measure the harmful PM2.5 levels in the city centre every 13 seconds. This data is now able to help visualise the air quality issue and identify any hotspots.

The next stage of the project is to install another 100 sensors in Birmingham in 2021, and a further 220 in Cardiff, Glasgow, Leeds and Manchester by May.

Once the sensors are installed and monitored for 2 months we will provide access for local council and our customers to the Pollutrack AirDiag system where they will be able to see the data. We hope this will aid councils in their policy making.

Project BREATHE compliments our 2025 strategy to be delivering via electric vehicles to 25 cities in the UK.

DPD Air Quality Monitoring

Breathe Easy

DPD held its first-ever virtual event on the topic of clean air in our cities.

Almost 500 people joined us from businesses, associated charities, government, science and the Green space to explore some of the steps being taken to reduce air pollution. A group of expert speakers each outlined the innovation methods their organisations are employing to track air quality and what must be done to improve it.

Please watch the event or download the white paper.

Green packaging
Our green packaging
Our Green Packaging
Our green

packaging

We provide 36 million plastic packages a year to protect our customers’ goods and we want to do something about this, which is why we’re working with our customers to reduce the number of bags used. We have also made a major change to the bags themselves, which are now made from 80% reclaimed material and are 100% recyclable.

Here’s the story: We set out in 2018 to develop a 100% recyclable bag, working with a specialist provider, Povoas, to create a bag secure enough to protect our customers’ goods in transit. Povoas were keen to work with us to find the ideal solution. Unfortunately, the original material used, when put to the test, was far too thin to carry our customers’ goods securely. Povoas eventually found the right solution, a bag made from 80% reclaimed material, whilst being 100% recyclable made from waste from the agricultural industry, that would otherwise find its way to landfill, an extra benefit.

Why not made from 100% reclaimed material?
We would love nothing more than to use bags that are 100% reclaimed material, but if we do, the bags become so transparent and flimsy they are not fit for purpose.

If your local authority doesn't recycle our bag please find alternatives solutions by clicking on this link

Our Green Packaging
We're removing
single-use plastics

We've given over 20,000 people our reusable metal water bottles in 2020, so they will never need to buy water in a plastic bottle again. We’ve also installed water stations at all our sites, so the bottles can easily be refilled. And our Hub vending machines, which dispense 100,000 plastic bottles of water a year, will now only provide cans. We estimate, based on our people filling up on average twice a day over five days, that 3.75 million plastic bottles of water will no longer be needed.

We’re also promoting Refill, an innovative app that shows where our people can get a refill when they’re out and about delivering.

Download the refill app here

Our canteens no longer use plastic cutlery and drinking cups, and we are working with our supply chain to establish other key plastic free items. As we said earlier, we will remove all single use plastic from our entire operation.

Would you like to own one of these lovely green bottles and ditch plastic?
Send us your green idea, and to the provider of the best idea each month, we'll send one of our lovely green bottles.


Our Green Packaging
We're also recycling

shrink wrap

in our operation

In 2020 DPD recycled 260 tonnes of shrink wrap from its operation, through a great new initiative. All shrink wrap used in our operation is now bailed at our central hub and then reprocessed into raw plastic material. This is then sold and the money generated goes into the DPD Eco fund to support green initiatives throughout the UK.

Our Green Packaging
Did you

know?

There are 350 million tonnes of plastic used around the world annually. It’s important we all work to keep this out of landfill and our oceans; only by recycling can we aim to achieve this.

Only one in 200 plastic bags are currently recycled, which has to change.

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Waste management
Waste Management
Waste management
Reducing our

footprint

We hate waste and make sure what little we have is disposed of responsibly, which is why 100% of our waste avoids landfill.

Watch our film to see how we avoid landfill. VIEW FILM

Waste management
Did you

know?

Our hubs collected and recycled over 2,000 tonnes of material over 2020. Breaking down into 336 tonnes of Plastic Film, 223 tonnes of Hard Plastics and 1,486 tonnes of Cardboard.

Energy management
Energy Management
Energy management
Sustainable with

solar power

When it comes to electricity we want to do our bit, so we spend more to make sure our electricity comes from a sustainable source. We only buy our electricity from renewable sources.

Our Oldbury and Hinckley hubs run fully on solar power during the day. In fact we can show you what we’ve generated at our sites on our chart here...

Last year we generated enough electricity to power 336 houses for a year from one of our hub sites.

We have installed LED lighting in our network, reducing electricity by a whopping 61% as the lights are on less and use less electricity when they are. All our new-builds have LED lighting too.

We’ve got tight control of our gas supply, and since we installed the equivalent of a smart meter throughout our whole network we've significantly reduced our gas consumption.

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Energy management
Net Zero Carbon In Construction

Bicester Depot

The building will be constructed to net zero carbon in construction in line with the UK Green Building Council’s Framework. This is achieved by reducing embodied carbon and carbon off-setting. Tritax are a UKGBC Gold Member. Targeting BREEAM ‘Very Good’ and an EPC ‘A’ rating

Low energy and zero carbon design principles have been incorporated into the scheme resulting in a projected 40% reduction in carbon emissions in the building’s operation, 10% reduction in heating and cooling demand and 5% reduction in energy demand.

Some notable inclusions within the design are:

  • Air Source Heat Pumps for heating and cooling.
  • 517 m2 of solar photovoltaic panels (25% of useable roof area).
  • 70% improved airtightness in the building envelope.
  • Improved building fabric and U values.
  • Electric Vehicle charging points (10 car and 20 van parking spaces), ducts provided to the service yard for future installation of van and HGV charging points with additional ducts also in the car park.

Energy management
DPD powered by

100% renewable energy

Dpd operates from 84 locations across the UK and has five national hubs. We have in excess of 4 million square feet of operational workspace and consume around 28 gigawatts of electricity annually.

From October 2020, DPD has contracted with its suppliers for all 28 gigawatts we use per year to come from fully renewable sources.

Circular economy
Circular Economy
Circular Economy

Our motto is reuse,
reduce, recycle

We are working with our customer ASOS to trial a groundbreaking new service for its customers, whereby all clothing that's had its day can find a new home and be reloved - and we've got a carbon-free way to do it

The service is called Re Love and the unwanted clothes will be donated to five national charities who are all keen to work with us and make this a new way to breathe life into pre-loved clothing.

Circular Economy

ReLove

Using the DPD app, during the trial, ASOS customers will be able to arrange a collection for their pre-loved clothing at the same time as a delivery is being made, and choose one of the five charities they want to send their clothing to

Clothing is bagged up, reusing the previous packaging so we can keep it green. We don’t even need a label, and our driver will collect the bags when they arrive with the delivery.

We’ll take the clothing to the chosen charity and get pre-loved clothing to its new home in the greenest way possible

This trailblazing project will be trialled with ASOS customers and we'll report back here with the results. Watch this space.

DPD eco fund
DPD Eco Fund
DPD Eco Fund
About our Eco Fund

The Eco Fund is funded by our circular economy initiative to protect the environment. The plastic shrink wrap we use in our operation is broken down, and then recycled to create new plastic shrink wrap. DPD also re-use and recycle the wooden pallets used in our depots and the money generated from both these initiatives goes straight into our Eco Fund.

Anyone can apply for funding from the DPD Eco Fund, although we particularly encourage community groups, educational facilities and start-up companies, with all applications needing to be of a green, ecological or sustainability nature, with the project benefiting the environment.

The Eco Fund has donated over £200,000 to worthy sustainable projects since it started in January 2020

Apply here if you have a green programme that needs funding.

Take a look at some of the green projects we’ve already supported over the last few months

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donated to 90 environmental
projects across the UK
since January 2020

DPD Eco Fund
Featured Funding

February 2021

See projects that DPD have supported below:

Heart of Hasting - Community
Heart of Hasting received £1,650 from the DPD Eco Fund
Sustainable Spring Cleaning - Community
Sustainable Spring Cleaning received £350 from the DPD Eco Fund
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donated to 2 environmental
projects across the UK
in February 2021

DPD Eco Fund
Featured Funding

January 2021

See projects that DPD have supported below:

Growing Buddies - Community
Growing Buddies received £1,932 from the DPD Eco Fund
Gro-Organic - Charity
Gro-Organic received £1,966 from the DPD Eco Fund
Halton Gardening Group - Charity
Halton Gardening Group received £500 from the DPD Eco Fund
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donated to 3 environmental
projects across the UK
in January 2021

DPD Eco Fund
Featured Funding

December 2020

See projects that DPD have supported below:

Green Withens - Community
Green Withens received £2,000 from the DPD Eco Fund
BF foundation - Charity
BF foundation cutting received £1,999 from the DPD Eco Fund
Orchardville - Charity
Orchardville received £1,930 from the DPD Eco Fund
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donated to 3 environmental
projects across the UK
in December

DPD Eco Fund
Featured Funding

November 2020

See projects that DPD have supported below:

TY’R Eithin - College
TY’R Eithin received £1,913 from the DPD Eco Fund
Buckthorne cutting - Charity
Buckthorne cutting received £1,800 from the DPD Eco Fund
Clay Cross Foodbank - Charity
Clay Cross Foodbank received £936 from the DPD Eco Fund
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donated to 5 environmental
projects across the UK
in November

DPD Eco Fund
Featured Funding

October 2020

See projects that DPD have supported below:

Winston’s Wish - Charity
Winston’s Wish received £2,000 from the DPD Eco Fund
Gomeldon Primary School - School
Gomeldon Primary School received £850 from the DPD Eco Fund
FRM - School
FRM received £2,000 from the DPD Eco Fund
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donated to 6 environmental
projects across the UK
in October

DPD Eco Fund
Featured Funding

September 2020

See projects that DPD have supported below:

For Peat’s Sake! - Start Up
For Peat’s Sake! received £750 from the DPD Eco Fund
Lichfield & Hatherton Canals Restoration Trust - Charity
Lichfield & Hatherton Canals Restoration Trust received £2,000 from the DPD Eco Fund
Carnival Brewing - Start up
Carnival Brewing received £2,000 from the DPD Eco Fund
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donated to 9 environmental
projects across the UK
in September

DPD Eco Fund
Featured Funding

August 2020

See projects that DPD have supported below:

Anni Verdi reusable menstrual products - Start up
Anni Verdi reusable menstrual products received £1,400 from the DPD Eco Fund
East Anglia Children's Hospices - Community
East Anglia Children's Hospices received £2,000 from the DPD Eco Fund
The Unwaste refill service - Start up
The Unwaste refill service received £1,751 from the DPD Eco Fund
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donated to 10 environmental
projects across the UK
in August

DPD Eco Fund
Featured Funding

July 2020

See projects that DPD have supported below:

Half Moon Young Peoples theatre - Community
Half Moon Young Peoples theatre received £2,000 from the DPD Eco Fund
Great Linford Primary School - School
Tenenment Veg received £1,180 from the DPD Eco Fund
Tamar TLC - Discovering Dormice
Tamar TLC received £1,500 from the DPD Eco Fund
Colham school - School
Colham school received £960 from the DPD Eco Fund
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donated to 24 environmental
projects across the UK
in July

DPD Eco Fund
Featured Funding

June 2020

See projects that DPD have supported below:

Forest House Education Center - School
Forest House Education Center received £1,500 from the DPD Eco Fund
Bishop Challoner - School
Bishop Challoner received £1,200 from the DPD Eco Fund
The Biodiversity and Urban Greenspace Society (BUGS) Liverpool - Community
BUGS received £2,000 from the DPD Eco Fund
St Lukes School for Special Education Needs - School
St Lukes School for Special Education Needs received £2,000 from the DPD Eco Fund
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donated to 21 environmental
projects across the UK
in June

DPD Eco Fund
Featured Funding

May 2020

See projects that DPD have supported below:

Maritime Youth Group - Community
Maritime Youth Group received £1,400 from the DPD Eco Fund
Wings and Radicles - Community
Wings and Radicles received £700 from the DPD Eco Fund
Notts tree planters - Community
Notts tree planters received £888 from the DPD Eco Fund
Birthenshawe school - School
Birthenshawe school received £2,000 from the DPD Eco Fund
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donated to 9 environmental
projects across the UK
in May

DPD Eco Fund
Featured Funding

April 2020

See projects that DPD have supported below:

Lune Valley Beekepers - Community
The Lune Valley Beekepers received £1,572 from the DPD Eco Fund
Tenenment Veg - Startup
Tenenment Veg received £1,500 from the DPD Eco Fund
Oasis Academy - School
Oasis Academy school received £1,439 from the DPD Eco Fund
Less Plastic - Community
Less Plastic received £1,975 from the DPD Eco Fund
Thought leadership
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donated to 12 environmental
projects across the UK
in April

Thought Leadership
Thought Leadership

Our 1, 2, 3, 4 strategy

Our 1, 2, 3 strategy has served us well for the last decade with our focus on having the best technology, the best people and delivering the best service to our customers. Watch our film 'four little numbers' to get an insight into an essential fourth element to our strategy that will see us become the UK's leader in sustainable delivery. #Sustainability #YourDeliveryExperts

Thought Leadership
Our 25-25-25 Strategy

DPD's journey in sustainability continues with our industry-leading 25-25-25 Vision strategy, to deliver zero emissions to 25 towns and cities, covering 25% of the UK population by 2025.

By 2025 the strategy will deliver 100 million parcels on our all-electric vehicle fleet, compared with only 1.3 million in 2019.

The 25 towns and cities are London, Birmingham, Sheffield, Glasgow, Leeds, Manchester, Liverpool, Edinburgh, Bristol, Leicester, Bradford, Cardiff, Coventry, Nottingham, Newcastle, Derby, Southampton, Portsmouth, Plymouth, Brighton, Reading, Oxford, Cambridge, Hull and Stoke.

These have been chosen due to their population size and volume of deliveries in those cities, resulting in an estimated CO2 emissions reduction of 40,000 tonnes.

Our ambition is to complete the first 10 cities by the end of 2021, and we will keep you updated on our progress here on our website.



Thought Leadership
Delivering a

zero-emission future

DPD has produced a thought leadership paper, ‘Delivering a Zero Emission Future’, to challenge today’s leaders to help facilitate fast EV fleet deployment and also share with the public the challenges we face.

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Thought Leadership
Working with our customers towards a

brighter future

We’re working with our major customers to let them know how many of their parcels have been delivered by our all-electric vehicles. We believe that through communication and increased awareness we will be able to drive the demand for all-electric delivery.

Here’s an example of how we are building awareness with our customer ASOS. This quarterly statement clearly shows the impact that ASOS is having on our environment by choosing DPD for its parcel delivery.

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DPD customer? You can request your statement from your account manager.

Thought Leadership
Our 2021

objectives

Download a copy of our top 10 CSR objectives for 2021 below:

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Thought Leadership
A Group-wide approach to

Carbon offsetting

since 2012

DPD UK is part of DPDgroup, fully owned by La Poste, and is one of Europe’s leading express delivery companies. DPD has been offsetting its carbon footprint since 2012, at no extra cost to its customers.

Offsetting starts with measuring your CO2 emissions, with that amount of C02 (your carbon footprint) offset by funding projects that reduce carbon emissions by the same amount.

DPDgroup offsets 100% of its transport and energy consumption, nearly 1,000,000 tonnes of CO2, making DPDgroup the number 1 for voluntary carbon offset in the express parcels market.

DPDgroup has also committed to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals to combat climate action.

Our CO2 offsetting is externally audited and verified through our partner, CO2 logic.

Offsetting is done at no extra cost to our customers, and we are fully committed to reducing our overall emissions. For the full story on our Group and its commitment to the environment, find out more here:

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Thought Leadership
Our vision for a greener future

DPD UK Blog

The DPD UK Blog is a special place for sharing what we’re doing to minimise our impact on the environment. From cutting emissions for our DPD drivers, to investing in recyclable packaging – we have plenty of stories to share.

It’s about our environment – and our impact on it

We aim to be the leader in sustainable delivery, and we want everyone to help support that vision. We understand the impact we have on environment, and we know we can always do more. So, we’ll be letting you know what we’re doing and the steps that we are taking to be the greenest delivery company on this planet.

You can read our latest stories here
Thought Leadership

Wareham forest

We will be planting 79,000 trees at Wareham over 3 years, the trees will cover an area the size of almost 41 football pitches. In May 2020 large areas of Wareham Forest were destroyed by a ferocious forest fire. The fire burnt for over two weeks from the 18th of May destroying an area the size of 350 football pitches. It will take several decades to fully recover from the damage and was home to rare bare-ground invertebrates as well as ground nesting birds such as the woodlark and native reptiles, in particular the endangered sand lizards and smooth snakes.

News & Awards
News & Awards
News & Awards

News

EDIE award - 2021

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Vision 25-25-25 - December 2020

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DPD make history with five road transport 'Oscars' - September 2020

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Volta Trucks and DPD bring full-electric large commercial vehicle parcel deliveries to London's Ultra Low Emission Zone - August 2020

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DPD smashes EV target five months early with over 700 electric vehicles - August 2020

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DPD teams up with iconic brand for testing ahead of van launch - June 2020

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News & Awards

Awards

DPD is delighted to be recognised for its green efforts and has already been presented with the following awards:

DPD made history at last night's Motor Transport Awards, beating off stiff competition to scoop five trophies at this year's road transport 'Oscars', held for the first time as a virtual event.

The awards celebrate outstanding achievement in the industry and recognise innovation, customer service, efficiency and quality.
They are judged by an independent panel of experts drawn from the industry.

DPD became the first company to win five awards in one night, on two occasions, having also scooped five in 2015.
The company also became the all-time most-honoured brand in the history of the awards, with this year's haul taking DPD's total tally of Motor Transport Awards to 34 wins, one more than previous record-holder TNT.

DPD, who have now won 14 Motor Transport Awards in the last five years, were also the only parcel company to bring home an award from this year's event.

With this year's competition attracting more entries than ever before, DPD topped the following categories:

  • Customer Care (for the fourth time in five years)
  • Home Delivery Operator (for the fourth time in five years)
  • Best use of Technology
  • Clean Fleet Van Operator
  • Urban Delivery Operator

News & Awards

Awards

DPD wins Sustainability Leaders edie award 2020.
DPD was the only parcel company amongst the 180 finalists with judges commending our innovative micro-depots in London and how we have reduced our emissions and helped shape the wider debate around sustainable urban deliveries.

DPD wins Green Apple award for Environmental Best Practice in 2019.
DPD received 'Gold winner' status, with judges hailing our achievements in reducing CO DPD received 'Gold winner' status, with judges hailing our achievements in reducing CO

DPD receives a Fleet Heroes award from the Energy Saving Trust.
DPD received this award for our innovative approach to zero-emission deliveries via our Westminster and Shoreditch micro-depots, as well as our nationwide rollout of electric vehicles.

DPD UK certified as Carbon Trust Standard.
The Carbon Trust Standard recognises organisations that follow best practice in measuring, managing and reducing their environmental impact.

DPD has been certified for The Carbon Trust Standard for Carbon, which is a mark of excellence that enables organisations to demonstrate their success in cutting their carbon footprint.

DPD was also recognised by The Carbon Trust Standard for Waste after demonstrating a real reduction in waste streams year-on-year, or that waste is being dealt with more effectively, for example through increased recovery, recycling or reuse.