Problem solved.
Posted on 06/18/2017 4:36:55 PM PDT by SMGFan
More than ever, we are shopping with a scroll and a click online instead of in our local brick-and-mortar stores. Lucrative same-day shipping deals and the convenience of shopping from home have propelled the growth of e-commerce: up nearly 25 percent last year, according to an analysis by Slice Intelligence.
"It used to be grayish, like the color of newspapers and magazines. And now it's more brown or cardboard in color, from all these boxes," said spokesman Robert Reed from San Francisco's recycling hauler, Recology. "People are ordering a lot more things online, and they arrive in small- and medium-sized cardboard boxes, and so you can see it right here," Reed told NBC's Jo Ling Kent, standing beside the plant's massive pile of cardboard, hard plastics, paper, and bottles.
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Ruh-roh. I’m sensing a carboard box tax in the offing.
MSNBC, where there is not a university degree there worth cra..er...Dorkbamastuff.
I thought the color of recycling was supposed to be green for all the earth they are saving.
It’s green al right, and pure red on the inside
Well said!
Same stuff came to the Walmart in a cardboard box. No story here.
In many ways this is bad for commercial real estate. Those who depend on retail for an occupation.
Now would be a great time to add a national sales tax on all online purchases.
However, here in Thailand, you put cardboard, bottles, plastic bottles, etc out by the trash, it will most likely be gone in an hour. The village garbage truck workers keep bags hanging from the truck and sort through each load for reclycables. But then the average Thai wage is $10 a day so it is worth their time and effort.
It comes in a box whether you get it at the store or in the mail/UPS/FEDX/Whatever.
I’d been waiting for the environmentalists to get around to this. Those UPS trucks must put out a lot of carbon. Everything humans do is evil.
The serious issue is on jobs with the brick and mortar decline.
The perfect is the enemy of the good, not that environmentalists will ever learn.
Online shopping uses far less fuel overall than mall shopping. One FedEx or UPS truck makes a whole bunch of deliveries, driving less than half a mile per package. The cost is more cardboard for the shipping boxes, but that is a net win. Cardboard is a completely renewable resource, and it overall removes carbon from the atmosphere (in the event that CO2 even matters), since the carbon for cardboard comes from trees that take the CO2 out of the air and that carbon is then sequestered in a landfill.
Around here, you put your corrugated cardboard in with yard clippings, and they mulch it all and then sell it to cover costs. http://www.texaspureproducts.com/
Just put it in a landfill. Carbon capture.
A national sales tax on internet purchases? Are you daft? I would completely agree with dumping the federal income tax for a national sales tax. But never just adding a national sales tax to internet purchases. You can’t stop progress. Online shopping is not going away. There are 100 good reasons to shop online. Less traffic, fewer car accidents, we use less gas, and we don’t have to pay for the overhead for brick-and-mortar stores.
We moved cross country in 2010. My corporate moving package came with box loading. Probably 200 brand new boxes. I put them on Craig’s list for free. No takers
It’s sure been a pain in #!*^ for me, though I’m starting to see a new trend in packaging. I ordered a couple shirts and they came in a heavy duty flexible plastic package. I hope this is the future.
Geez, no.
The mailing box is an extra box.
Problem solved.
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