No mention of the amount of CO2 _saved_ because of less trips to the store!
One delivery truck driving to everyone's home in a neighborhood is significantly less CO2 then everyone in the neighborhood driving to the mall!
One delivery truck driving to everyone's home in a neighborhood is significantly less CO2 then everyone in the neighborhood driving to the mall!
> In theory, e-commerce is good for the environment... Instead of a neighborhood worth of people driving to stores in their personal cars to shop, one truck can deliver everything. But that calculus is changing.
It's the overall CO2 that matters - which stays opaque.
So there's buying extra for convenience vs impulse buying what you see. In my personnel experience shopping online, the impulse buys go away, but I make the shopping list the same way, with one big batch a week, so overall buying less.