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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No thanks!
This household orders online maybe twice a year. Guarantee that is less cardboard than Algore gets delivered in a week.
Same stuff came to the Walmart in a cardboard box. No story here.
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Oh yeah...right....
Next thing you will be telling me that the milk and bread and meat aren’t made at the super market...
Heavens to Murgatroyd!!!
You must really think WE are dumb to be putting out such malarkey....
Organic material in the dump decays, being turned into water carbon dioxide and methane. Carbon is not “captured”
I burn my cardboard thereby eliminating all the carbon it contains. Somebody please tell Al to send me my carbon credits.
Only if you are ordering a cardboard cutout. :)
We use a 48” firepit
Yaaaaay - more taxes and regulations to comply with. Uh oh, someone is getting ahead in business......how dare they! Tax. Tax. Tax. That'll learn 'em to come up with lean business models and innovation.
But the libs correctly note that it take tens of thousand of years for carbon based waste to decay in a landfill. if you composte it it takes just a few days.
Online shopping has increased our family’s standard of living, by encouraging price competition, lowering prices, increasing choice, and making us aware of products we would not have even known about 20 years ago.
It has also allowed us to retire to a rural setting, freeing up housing in a very congested area. Not that one family makes much of difference, but multiply that by thousands and it is a real effect.
I burn my cardboard thereby eliminating all the carbon it contains. Somebody please tell Al to send me my carbon credits.
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I use my discarded card board as a starter for my annual tire fire on earf day.
(two birds - one stone)
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