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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 1500 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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Maxus eDeliver 3
Vehicles: 250 | Deliveries per week: 187,500
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Maxus eDeliver 9
Vehicles: 500 | Deliveries per week: 375,000
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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 Green Delivery
Smart Green Delivery
Smart Green 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 Green 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 Green 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.

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Smart Green 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 Green Delivery

Growth of our smart Green Network

DPD Shoreditch opened its doors in converted railway 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.

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

Then on the 3rd November 2020 DPD opened a most recent 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.

Smart Green 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 Green 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 Green 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 Green Delivery
More right first time

deliveries

We have expanded our pick up shop network through a partnership with the post office to over 6000 shops this means we can offer more 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 quality monitoring programme. We launched this in London in August 2020, installing 100 fixed and 20 mobile sensors. We expanded the programme to include Birmingham and Cardiff, where we have installed over 120 sensors across the two cities, in March 2021. These sensors measure harmful PM2.5 (Particulate matter) levels in the city every 13 seconds and help to visualise the air quality and identify any hotspots of PM2.5 in the cities.

The next stage of the project is to install a further 150 sensors in Glasgow, Leeds and Manchester by July.

Once the sensors are installed and have been gathering data for 2 months we will provide access to the Pollutrack AirDiag and dashboard to local councils and our customers. We hope this will provide local authorities and academic institutions with data that will help shape their decision making to provide the public cleaner air.

Project BREATHE compliments our Vision 25 25 25 strategy to deliver all-electric to 25 towns and cities in the UK by 2025.

Click the links below to see the air quality in the cities.

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.

DPD Air Quality Monitoring

Clean Air Zone

With the expanding network of Clean Air Zones, Ultra Low Emission Zones and Zero Emission Zones across the UK we at DPD have made a pledge to support the efforts of local and national government in improving urban air quality by ensuring all of our vehicles which operate within the new zones are compliant with the emission standards set out by the Zones.

We monitor the progress of proposed and implemented zones across the country and evaluate their impact on our existing operation in the area and then adjust to ensure we are complying with zone’s standards.

Recent focus has been on the recent implementation of clean air zones in the city centres of Bath and Birmingham as well as the upcoming expansion of London’s Ultra Low Emission Zone which will move out to the North and South Circular roads to include all roads inside the North South Circular.

Zero To Hero
Go Zero be a Hero
Your Eco impact report
How to be a

DPD Eco
Superhero

By downloading the DPD app, you are taking the first step to becoming a DPD Eco Superhero.

When you receive a delivery from DPD via one of our all-electric delivery vehicles we'll keep count and when that reaches 50 we will plant a tree on your behalf!

How green is that? So go on, be a DPD Eco Superhero, download the DPD app and we'll let you know when we've planted your tree.

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 since 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, this has helped us save the equivalent of over 2 million plastic bottles, this corresponds to over 165.6 tonnes of plastic and to growing 8,200 trees for a year.

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
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
We're also recycling

shrink wrap

in our operation

In 2021 DPD recycled 410 tonnes of shrink wrap from its operation, through a great 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.

Waste management
Did you

know?

In 2021 we collected 36,000 tonnes of waste, this broke down into 69% that was prepared for reuse, 22% was recycled and 9% was used for energy.

Energy management
Energy Management
Energy management
Hub 5

Solar PV

With the opening of our brand new Hub 5, our second hub to be located in Hinckley, Leicestershire, we have installed astate of the art Solar PV system comprising over 6000 panels providing an output of 2.4 MW.

The power generated by the system will enable the hub offices to operate off grid during daytime working hours with the excess power being exported back to the national grid to supply green energy.

This install is one of many similar DPD initiatives introduced to reduce our carbon footprint and fulfill our commitment in being the UKs leader in sustainable delivery, such as our project eclipse which is evaluating the expansion of our solar pv to 22 other sites across our network.

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

Along with our customer ASOS we launched our 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, ASOS customers are 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 initiative was launched in April 2021 within our app and open to ASOS customers, with the intention of expanding this service further.

Circular Economy

Sustainable Safety
Footwear

DPD is happy to introduce its new exclusive sustainable safety footwear, in partnership with Rockfall. The RF115 Bantam and RF108 Fly are two new groundbreaking styles which have been designed with sustainability as a core asset. They boast upper textiles, lining and lace materials all made from recycled plastic bottles, each pair containing up to 12 bottles worth of recycled plastic.

We continue to investigate and implement processes and products through our business operations to reduce our carbon footprint and overall impact on the environment as we strive to create a greener future.

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 129 environmental
projects across the UK
since January 2020

DPD Eco Fund

Wareham forest

We have worked with Forestry England to replant 79,000 trees in Wareham forest between 2020 and 2022. The trees will cover the area of over 40 football pitches and has been financed through our eco fund initiative.

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.

DPD Eco Fund
Featured Funding

October 2021

See projects that DPD have supported below:

Burnside Primary School - School
Burnside Primary School received £1,854 from the DPD Eco Fund
Berwickshire Marine Reserve - Charity
Berwickshire Marine Reserve received £453 from the DPD Eco Fund
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donated to 2 environmental
projects across the UK
in October 2021

DPD Eco Fund
Featured Funding

August 2021

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Paul Strickland Scanner Centre - Charity
Paul Strickland Scanner Centre received £582.29 from the DPD Eco Fund
Dave Scarborough - Community
Dave Scarboroug received £1,647 from the DPD Eco Fund
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donated to 2 environmental
projects across the UK
in August 2021

DPD Eco Fund
Featured Funding

July 2021

See projects that DPD have supported below:

Bonny Downs - Community
Bonny Downs received £992.30 from the DPD Eco Fund
Lorica Trust - Charity
Lorica Trust received £628.81 from the DPD Eco Fund
Win on Waste - Charity
Win on Waste received £750 from the DPD Eco Fund
Hopefields Education CIC - Community
Hopefields Education CIC received £1902.58 from the DPD Eco Fund
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donated to 4 environmental
projects across the UK
in July 2021

DPD Eco Fund
Featured Funding

June 2021

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The Oakupy Project - Community
The Oakupy Project received £1000 from the DPD Eco Fund
Caer Hug Farm - Charity
Caer Hug Farm received £1965 from the DPD Eco Fund
7th Edgware Guide Unit - Community
7th Edgware Guide Unit received £606.60 from the DPD Eco Fund
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donated to 3 environmental
projects across the UK
in June 2021

DPD Eco Fund
Featured Funding

May 2021

See projects that DPD have supported below:

Morpeth Schools Clothing Scheme - Charity
Morpeth Schools Clothing Scheme received £359 from the DPD Eco Fund
Chopsticks - Community
Chopsticks received £768 from the DPD Eco Fund
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donated to 2 environmental
projects across the UK
in May 2021

DPD Eco Fund
Featured Funding

April 2021

See projects that DPD have supported below:

University of Aberdeen - School
University of Aberdeen received £1,718 from the DPD Eco Fund
West Loch Ness Farm Cluster - Community
Super Swifts received £1,920 from the DPD Eco Fund
Scampa - School
Scampa received £1,253 from the DPD Eco Fund
Cardiff Residential Services - Charity
Cardiff Residential Services received £599 from the DPD Eco Fund
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donated to 4 environmental
projects across the UK
in April 2021

DPD Eco Fund
Featured Funding

March 2021

See projects that DPD have supported below:

Sal’s Shoes - Charity
Sal’s Shoes received £2,000 from the DPD Eco Fund
Super Swifts - Community
Super Swifts received £345 from the DPD Eco Fund
Nottingham Bikeworks - Charity
Nottingham Bikeworks received £1,016 from the DPD Eco Fund
YG - Charity
YG received £1,983 from the DPD Eco Fund
Stroud Green Primary - School
Stroud Green Primary received £148 from the DPD Eco Fund
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donated to 5 environmental
projects across the UK
in March 2021

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
Thought leadership
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donated to 2 environmental
projects across the UK
in February 2021

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

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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 in 2023.

In 2023 the strategy will deliver 100 million parcels on our all-electric van 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 42,000 tonnes.



Thought Leadership

United Nations

Sustainable

Development Goals

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, UN SDGs, are a set of 17 goals which were adopted as a universal call to action to end poverty, safegard the planet and ensure that everyone is living in peace and prosperity by 2030. The 17 goals are integrated and interwoven recognising that action in one area will have an impact on others.

The goals were discussed and agreed upon at the 2015 United Nations Sustainable Development Summit in New York, Along with the 17 goals, 169 targets were created to help meet the goals by 2030. The summit consisted of 196 heads of state and saw the goals accepted by 193 countries worldwide creating a universal agenda for sustainable development.

At DPD we are doing our part to support the push to protect the planet in line with the UN SDGs. We have a particular focus on SDG 13, climate action whilst also focusing on 8, decent work and economic growth, 11, Sustainable Cities and Communities and 17, Partnership for the goals.

Find out more here
Thought Leadership
Oxford all-electric delivery

Sustainability leader DPD has confirmed that all future parcel deliveries in Oxford will now be made with only electric vans. On 27th July, Oxford will become DPD’s first all-electric city, with 9 further UK ‘green cities’ to be confirmed this year.

Vision 25 is DPD’s pledge to deliver ‘green’ to 25 major UK towns and cities, covering 25% of the UK population by the end of 2023, and is backed by a £111m investment in electric vehicles. The initiative will deliver 42,000 tonnes of CO2 savings for the UK, or the equivalent of planting 170,000 trees by the end of 2023.

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Inspire

DPD is a Valuable 500 company and a Disability Confident Employer.

DPD's Inclusion Strategy includes working with schools, colleges, charities and organisations to offer employment opportunities to those who are disabled, particularly those with learning disabilities and special educational needs, through its 'DPD Inspire' programme.

This is achieved through Work Experience, Supported Internship and Inclusive Apprenticeships. DPD is a Disability Confident Employer and is actively looking to create further opportunities ensuring every area of the business is included in this part of our inclusion strategy.

We are proud to have taken our diversity and inclusion agenda to the next level by being a part of these fantastic movements alongside some of the world's most influential businesses.

The Valuable 500 is a global movement putting disability on the business agenda. They're calling for 500 companies to unlock the potential of the 1.3 billion people living with disabilities around the world.

“Inclusion for all is part of our culture and we are fully committed to including everyone at DPD. We are delighted to now join other organisations who are also committing to those same values as part of The Valuable 500 initiative.”

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Driving Change

Please find our Group sustainability report published by DPD Group covering all our business units from across Europe.

DPD Group has produced its annual sustainability report called ‘Driving Change’ which showcases our european wide corporate social responsibility achievements and ambitions for 2020. Available for download below.

Group sustainability report
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Our 2020

Sustainability Report

Download a copy of our 2020 Sustainability Report below:

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2021 CSR policy

DPD UK has created a CSR policy for 2021 because as a responsible company, we are committed to ensuring that environmental management is a key priority and as delivery experts, our aim is to make a positive impact on the environment and our communities through what we do each and every day.

Available to read and download below.

2021 CSR policy
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.

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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:

Carbon offsetting certificate
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News & Awards
News & Awards

News

Global Good Award - 2021

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Oxford all-electric delivery - July 2021

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Enso Tyres press release - July 2021

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Victoria Pendleton's visit to Bicester - July 2021

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Latest Social Media Announcement - #SameAddress - July 2021

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DPD scoops Oceansaver award! - June 2021

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DPD doubles EV fleet to almost 1,500 with UK's first MAXUS e Deliver electric van order - June 2021

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Wareham Forest - June 2021

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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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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.