Impact
Environmental burden versus environmental gain
You might be asking yourself: "But doesn't mining and transporting olivine also cause emissions?" That's right.
Every activity has an environmental impact, including the extraction of conventional sand and stone.
The essential difference lies in the balance: with traditional materials, you only add to the environmental impact, while with olivine, the active CO₂ removal far outweighs the emissions from extraction and transport.
On our page about the MKI score, you can read exactly what that complete balance looks like in terms of environmental costs.
The choice is yours: do you choose material that only harms the environment, or material that captures CO₂?
We can demonstrably make climate-positive choices.
Choosing climate-positive materials
Sometimes, the greatest gains are to be made in projects where climate-positive choices are not yet standard. Here, we work with a specific approach to achieve large-scale CO₂ removal.
For example, greenSand made projects like the Uithoornlijn and NS Arnhem possible by offering olivine below cost price.
Without the sale of CO₂ offset certificates, these projects would not have existed — and cheaper, conventional material without any CO₂ removal would have been chosen instead.
Every certificate you buy makes another project possible.
Tangible impact
Curious about the actual impact of these projects? Our interactive CO₂ map shows you exactly where we are removing CO₂ worldwide. For each location, you can directly see which project is there and how much CO₂ has been removed from the atmosphere on average thanks to your contribution — and that of others. This way, we make the invisible impact of olivine visible for everyone
