University of Saskatchewan Is the First Canadian Organization to Join PayByPhone’s Meters for Trees

PayByPhone, the global leader in mobile parking payments, today announces the Parking and Transportation Services department at the University of Saskatchewan has signed up to the company’smulti-award-winning tree planting initiative, Meters for Trees, effective immediately. The University of Saskatchewan is the first Canadian organization to sign up to Meters for Trees.  

Carmen Donnell, Managing Director North America for PayByPhone, says, “We’re very happy to welcome the University of Saskatchewan, the first Canadian organization, to Meters for Trees. It is a meaningful step toward building a greener tomorrow and supports the University in furthering its sustainability initiatives by removing parking hardware and planting trees.” 

PayByPhone has been the parking payments provider for the University since 2018 across its campus locations. Under the terms of Meters for Trees, PayByPhone will plant 50 trees in 2025 in Alberta, Canada, through PayByPhone’s partner, veritree, an organization that connects businesses with verified tree planting projects to elevate global reforestation. In addition to planting trees with veritree, PayByPhone will contribute funds to plant trees on campus. 

Dwayne Kawchuk, Manager for Parking and Transportation Services, University of Saskatchewan, says, “Meters for Trees is a meaningful and easy way for us to move toward an eco-friendlier future. By encouraging mobile parking payments, we ensure we are not only addressing local air quality but also supporting our own environment goals through local tree planting.” 

Meters for Trees was first launched in the UK in 2019, as part of its broader environmental campaigns including Green December. These initiatives help forward-thinking cities, universities, and parking operators reduce their costly parking hardware as they opt for a mobile app-based parking service. Over the past five years, PayByPhone’s environmental campaigns have collectively planted over 225,000 trees globally. 

Meters for Trees is a multi-award-winning initiative, having won 12 international awards, including a Global Gold Award at the 2019 Green World Environment Awards in the Carbon Reduction and Local Authorities categories, the Green Champion Award in Carbon Reduction at the 2019 Green Apple Environment Awards, and the Environmental Initiative Award at the 2020 SEAL Business Sustainability Awards. 

For more information about Meters for Trees, please visit http://www.paybyphone.com/parking-operators/meters-for-trees  

About PayByPhone 

PayByPhone’s aim is simple: simplify your journey so you can focus on what matters most. As a wholly-owned subsidiary of Volkswagen Financial Services AG, it is one of the fastest-growing mobile payments companies in the world, processing more than $550 million in payments and over 5 million downloads per year. Available in more than 1,200 cities across the globe, PayByPhone helps millions of consumers easily and safely pay for parking without the hassles of coins, lines, or fines. Its smart, intuitive technology is at the center of its user-first approach, delivered to make everything as simple as possible. For more information, please visit www.paybyphone.com.