SUSTAINABILITY

Our farms contain a lot of woody vegetation, trees that soak up carbon-di-oxide and turn it into wood, as well as grass that the sheep turn into wool, which in turn stores carbon in its structure. On average New Zealand sheep farms store a massive 4,2 million kgs of carbon each, storing that carbon in the soil, in vegetation and in the wool.

It takes energy, water and other resources to grow wool, all of which equates to a mere 0.34 kg CO2-e. Wool is 51% carbon so… 0.34kg minus 0.51kg = -0.17 C02-e

Yep! New Zealand Wool is carbon negative! It absorbs more carbon than it takes to make it.

We don’t count carbon sequestration, that is to say we don’t subtract all the carbon soaked up by the trees in calculating the carbon footprint of wool. Why, well some farms sell those carbon credits so that would be double counting, But if you consider a single farm a closed system you actually end up soaking up 3.38 kilos of wool for each kg you grow!