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Ep 378: Reducing environmental impact of e-commerce packaging

Ep 378: Reducing environmental impact of e-commerce packaging

Update: 2025-08-05
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Dr Selene Silvestri, Research Scientist at the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics, discusses the environmental impact of e-commerce packaging.

  • Measuring the cost of e-commerce packaging
  • Growth in e-commerce and impact on packaging
  • Benefits of recycling cardboard packaging
  • E-commerce shifting the cardboard recycling burden from retailers to consumers
  • Obstacles to higher recycling rates
  • Current models to encourage recycling
  • Regulations on reducing empty space in parcels
  • Reducing the weight of packaging
  • Reverse logistics framework to support recycling
  • Efficiency and convenience of doorstep recycling collection
  • Reusable packaging
  • Consolidated recycling drop-off points

 

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Ep 378: Reducing environmental impact of e-commerce packaging

Ep 378: Reducing environmental impact of e-commerce packaging

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