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Amazon has streamlined online shopping so much that most of us think nothing of clicking “buy now” and finding a package on our doorstep before we’ve eaten the next day’s dinner.
What Amazon is doing to make deliveries easier on Earth Amazon AMZN, -0.80% is moving in that direction. It now moves most of its inventory without air transport, a spokesman said, and it pledged this year to make 50% of its deliveries “net zero carbon” — meaning they won’t create any harmful emissions — by the year 2030. In 2021, it will start making some deliveries with a fleet of electric vehicles, and says it aims to put 100,000 electric vehicles on the road by 2030.
But rewarding people for delaying delivery with incentives to shop more may not do much for planet Earth in the long run, Jaller noted. “Because they are incentivizing people in a way that makes more sales for them, I don’t know if the benefit washes out, because it means more shopping and more delivery for them,” he said.
“Vehicles are least efficient when stopped, so by consolidating to a single order day, they are theoretically eliminating multiple other stops at their address that week. This benefit starts to wane in really dense markets , but my sense is this would only apply to the most dense and Amazon-penetrated markets.”
Kenny advises Amazon regulars to go the company’s Contact Us page, open a chat window and send a note explaining that they’d like Amazon to cut down on pollution and plastic as much as possible. Feedback could go both ways: MIT’s Velazquez says he’d like to see Amazon add a button that warns consumers with messages like, “This shipping option is the equivalent of killing 300 trees.”
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