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Kia's About To Celebrate Environmental Landmark - Five Million Trees Planted

Automobiles are not the best thing for the environment, and automakers are acutely aware of this.
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While other industries cause even more pollution than manufacturing cars and driving them, automakers are among the most aware companies these days when it comes to saving the planet.

Sure, Greenpeace and other environmentalist groups play their part, but corporations still have to do the heavy lifting when it comes to the financial justification of environmental improvements, which leads to every company carefully considering its next move.

Kia has just announced that it is closing in on an impressive environmental landmark - planting five million trees around its production facilities. This accomplishment is part of a larger plan started by the Korean automaker many years ago, and it focuses on increasing green space around its manufacturing plants.

According to Kia, the green space that surrounds its factories has reached the equivalent surface of 866 football pitches. To our American readers, the referral concerns “soccer” pitches, which are different to what you might refer to as football fields.

No matter what kind of football field is involved in putting a relatable dimension to Kia's ecological achievement, the automaker has managed to arrange and maintain an area that adds up to 3,507,276 square meters of created green space.

The green areas described above are located at every single Kia global production facility. Kia has a factory in Slovakia, a building in the USA, three plants in South Korea, and one in China. Kia says that the expansion of green space of 3.9 percent across all the facilities, and was done last year through the treatment of 136,289 square meters, the rough equivalent of 33 football pitches.

Kia prides itself on the fact that it has not had a case of soil contamination at any production facility for 15 years, and that its trees have absorbed approximately 107.5 million tons of CO2 thanks to its afforestation actions. As of the end of last year, Kia had planted 4.94 million trees at its manufacturing facilities, and the project has not stopped since then.

What you must remember from this story is that a single tree can absorb up to 22 kilograms (48.5 lbs.) of CO2 each year, so go ahead and do your part for this planet, as humans have yet to colonize some other place.
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About the author: Sebastian Toma
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Sebastian's love for cars began at a young age. Little did he know that a career would emerge from this passion (and that it would not, sadly, involve being a professional racecar driver). In over fourteen years, he got behind the wheel of several hundred vehicles and in the offices of the most important car publications in his homeland.
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