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Don't the emissions from the home delivery and pickup offset any good done by re-using the containers?
by Jill_the_Pill 7y ago
Don't the emissions from the home delivery and pickup offset any good done by re-using the containers?
- spronkey 7y agoIf you think about it, the emissions already occur when trucks drive goods to the shops, then people drive to the shop then drive home.
- Jill_the_Pill 7y agoI have thought about that, but when people shop, they pick up dozens of things at once. Having them delivered singly from different vendors seems like a lot more trips, plus the return-packaging trip.
- abyssin 7y agoThis is the crucial part. If the transport depends essentially on petrol, why care about the plastic? Plastic comes from petrol and is first used as a container, then to produce heat when burning it. If single-use container helps improve the logistics, then I don't think it is the main issue. I remember reading about an explanation about the sub-packaging of biscuits. Consumers would complain that a pack of biscuits contained multiple packs of biscuits itself. But it all made sense when accounting for the fact that biscuits go stale, and producing them takes more energy than storing them in smaller packages inside the main package. This all assumes a correct treatment of plastic containers. But my point is that the main issue lies with logistics, that produces lots of CO2, rather than with containers.