Online Shopping Costs a lot more in Waste and Greenhouse Gases
It's pretty obvious really even though some companies are pretty good at using the minimum of packaging and making is reusable and giving you labels for the return.I still remember the stationery parcels of some years ago where the articles rattled around in a huge box because they only seemed to use one size. The original small wrap around cardboard packaging for a book from Amazon was great and the book would go through the letterbox but then they seemed to become careless and to use a huge one-size-fits-all-but-it-doesn't box - and I stopped using them (and complained together with Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and a lot of others). It is always worth keeping the pressure up for a better deal.https://resource.co/article/convenience-online-returns-resulting-more-waste-and-ghg-emissionsIf you look a little harder you can often get what you are looking for from a small firm near you. That helps to keep your local shops thriving.
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