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Taygroup plc, which delivers products to stores from two Ikea distribution centres, has to send monthly records of how much CO2 its lorries emitted on this work, as Ikea builds an estimate of its own global foot-print through its Iway programme. Taygroup also reports on NOx, hydrocarbons, PMs and carbon monoxide. The firm has two options for measurement: one based on fuel use over distance covered and the other, which Taygroup uses, based on standard miles and a conversion formula, that changes  according to the Euro emission level of the truck.

Lloyd Briscoe, group safety, health, environment, fire and quality manager, says he aims to identify a CO2 footprint for the whole fleet. Taygroup is unusual in having the environment standard ISO 14001 and has joined the DEFRA-sponsored Hertfordshire Resource Efficiency Club. Briscoe joined the firm this year after a long spell with the Environment Agency, where he was an environmental protection officer. In the early 1990s, he was working for John Dee on its Electrolux contract in Dunstable, when Dee famously crashed.