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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. Consumerism at its finest by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Informative

    Let's worship the self, the icon of western consumerism. "I want" "I want" "I want" ... music to the ears of the capitalists destroying our society, coming from the spoiled progressives feeding them.

    Oh by the way, the dirty capitalists want your money. It doesn't benefit them to provide you the oldest or least desired. You're the customer most likely to leave them for a competing service. They're smarter than you.

  2. Re:Only true for a small portion of the world by KiloByte · · Score: 2, Informative

    What's that "supermarket" thing you're talking about? Outside the US we have regular shops every second corner: I live in the suburbs yet there's six grocery shops I can get to crossing a street at most once, two of them fairly large (for Polish rather than US standards). Supermarkets around here are also notorious for cheating with expired food, something corner shops don't dare to.

    Bread is what makes using supermarkets a bad idea: it is good for two days. I've seen bread in the US, you solve this problem by not having edible bread in the first place: that earthy sponge has never been good so it can't get worse :p

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  3. Re:Only true for a small portion of the world by goodmanj · · Score: 5, Informative

    Some stores offer delivery after you pay at the register

    Worst of both worlds, energy-wise: you burn gas driving to the store and back, and then the store's truck burns gas to deliver to you. This isn't having your cake and eating it too: this is having your cake and then throwing it away and getting another cake.