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Grocery Delivery Lowers Carbon Dioxide Emissions Over Individual Trips

Posted by Unknown on from the can't-beat-bicycles dept.

vinces99 writes "Those trips to the store can take a chunk out of your day and put more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. But now University of Washington engineers have found that using a grocery delivery service can cut carbon dioxide emissions by at least half when compared with individual household trips to the store. Trucks filled to capacity that deliver to customers clustered in neighborhoods produced the most savings in carbon dioxide emissions, but there are even benefits with delivery to rural areas."

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  1. Particular diet. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Will this grocery delivery service discriminate against "atheist" foods?

    1. Re:Particular diet. by niftydude · · Score: 4, Funny

      Will this grocery delivery service discriminate against "atheist" foods?

      All foods are atheist. At least, I've never met or heard of any food that claimed that it believed in a god.

      Feel free to provide evidence that theist foods exist - after all - extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.

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      You can never know everything, and part of what you do know will always be wrong. Perhaps even the most important part.
    2. Re:Particular diet. by prionic6 · · Score: 5, Funny

      All foods are atheist. At least, I've never met or heard of any food that claimed that it believed in a god.

      Depends on your definition of "food".

    3. Re:Particular diet. by sonamchauhan · · Score: 4, Funny

      Hannibal... is that you?