Where are the bunq trees planted?

Tricia

Samen hebben alle Bunqers 1,6 miljoen bomen gepland. Ik vroeg mij af waar Bunq deze bomen gaat planten of heeft gepland. Is hier al resultaat van? 1,6 miljoen bomen lijken mij veel bomen om te planten. 😝

JohnDo

Tricia Hi 👋🏼 Tricia,

Yes 1,6 is absolutely a huge number! Pretty amazing right?

bunq plant 🌱 those tiny trees manly in Madagaskar 🇲🇬. But because of this huge number of seeds, they are have to look for new sites.

For more info take a look here: https://www.bunq.com/blog/how-bunq-green-card-plants-trees

bunq will show more actual photos in time

Have a great day!

antonis

I'm very happy that bunq does this, but I'm wondering if the impact could have been a lot greater. According to the organisation bunq donates to, planting a tree in Madagascar (which is where bunq chooses to plant according to the blog post linked above) costs $0.10 per tree. That's $0.10 for every €100 that we spent. Sure, that's at no extra cost to us, but we're supposedly covering that with a membership of €16.99 per month (or €9 if we're in a bunq pack). So I'm wondering how is the rest of the money spent and if more could go to the cause we're supporting. Source for the $0.10 cost per tree: https://edenprojects.org/faqs/#how-much-does-it-cost-to-plant-a-tree

Wendy-Teal-Panther

Ik vraag me hetzelfde af als Antonis. Wat wordt er met de meerprijs van (voor mij) €9,00 per maand gedaan? Ik heb nu een abonnement van €7,99 per maand. Met het groene abonnement zou dit €16,99 per maand worden. Voor €9,00 extra per maand kan je bij bovengenoemd project in Madagascar meer dan 9000 bomen planten (prijs per boom $0,10, wisselkoers dollar/euro hierbij niet bekeken, dus zijn nog veel meer bomen).

Als voor elke uitgegeven €100 wordt gecompenseerd met een boom van $0,10, dan zou ik meer dan €9000 per maand moeten uitgeven om deze meerwaarde te rechtvaardigen toch? Zoveel geef ik echter niet uit per maand. Ik vraag me daarom dan ook af of dit niet vooral een mooi marketingverhaal en extra verdienmodel voor Bunq zelf is eigenlijk.

Ook ben ik benieuwd hoe het kan dat bovenstaand project een prijs heeft van $0,10 per boom. En dit bij een organisatie als Trees For All €6,25 per boom is. Is er een verschil in definitie van wat onder een boom wordt verstaan (zaadje, zaailing, boompje)? Hoe lang blijven de bomen in bovenstaand project daadwerkelijk staan.

antonis

I just remembered asking this and got back here to say I'm still wondering about this and never received any official reply from bunq.

Bastiaan

Antonis The trees are planted by "Eden Reforestation Projects" in Madagascar, Nepal, Haiti, Indonesia, Mozambique and Kenya.
You can find more info in the following blog: https://www.bunq.com/blog/how-bunq-green-card-plants-trees

antonis

Bastiaan Thank you Bastiaan but I'm afraid that doesn't answer my question. Look further up please, for the reply I made 2 months ago that I received no official response to. As you'll see on that question I'm aware of where the Eden project plants trees, as I'm also linking to it, and I of course approve it. My question has to do with how the budget is used for that purpose, and how the vast difference between the SuperGreen membership (which I'm paying for that reason) and the cost for planting a tree, as referenced by the Eden project itself, is justified. I'm sure there is a good reason behind that difference, I just think it's fair to know how my membership cost dedicated to that purpose is distributed.

Jakob-Y

Antonis I'm sure there is a good reason behind that difference, I just think it's fair to know how my membership cost dedicated to that purpose is distributed.

I don't think bunq ever stated that the plan costs for Easy Green are used to finance the tree planting. I always assumed, because tree planting is coupled to spending money with bunq cards, that the revenue from the card payments is where the money is coming from.

As for why you're paying 9 Euros more for Easy Green monthly, I think this money was mainly meant to finance the production etc. of the Metal Cards in the beginning, as they were exclusive to this plan. Now that the Metal Cards are free and available also with other plans, only some exclusive features remain, namely:

Purchase Protection & Extended Warranty
Gift Tree Planting to your Bestie

I'm under the impression that bunq needs something more here. On the one hand, making Metal Card and some features that were exclusive to Easy Green now available to all Easy Money users is in of itself a very good thing, but now the difference in functionality between the two plans has shrunken while the difference in price persists.

New-Silver-Akita-4177742225

Buna am.o probelama.cu cardul mi inblocat si vreau sa mil desblok ma ajutati si pe mn va rog

Bernd-Cyan-Penguin

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