Goods for Good recently employed Green Forest Sustainability Solutions to determine the environmental impact of sending excess goods to needy places such as Malawi. While the materials we send are clearly made useful in the hands of our beneficiaries, we wanted to know exactly how environmentally friendly our model is.

After reviewing the carbon footprint of G4G’s model, the environmental analysis report concluded the following:

The shipment of donated materials to Malawi was one-sixth as intensive with respect to carbon emissions than local disposal. In other words, donation is the preferable option with respect to carbon footprint.

Goods for Good matches excess goods from the United States with the needs of orphans and vulnerable children in the developing world.

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