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They should just ship with reusable boxes. Better boxes with inner protections, where you would get some kind of credit if you post/bring it back empty, or reus

• uxp 10y ago
  Reminds me of a European grocery store. As an American, I was confounded to see a lack of bags at nearly any store I visited that wasnt a tourist gift shop my first time I ventured across the Atlantic. Then it started to make more sense than the garbage-cycle we have over here.
  • lucaspiller 10y ago
    In most EU countries you need to pay for plastic* bags now, so they often aren't on display to make sure people pay - you just need to ask the cashier. *And a lot have starch bags, which break if you try and put more than two milk bottles in or anything sharp.
• rtpg 10y ago
  Considering transport costs, I don't know how viable that would be. Picking up boxes for recycling from houses alone would make for a pretty big carbon footprint. Not to mention costly. The current box strategy might be more carbon-friendly, oversll
  • _coldfire 10y ago
    You say recycling but I think you mean re-use. The energy costs involved in recycling are not trivial and someone still needs to "pick it up from every house". Its is almost always preferable carbon-wise to re-use, especially in metropolitan areas where pickup is trivial and could easily be performed on the next delivery. A small security deposit would cover the costs, or just keep them if you want some storage boxes.