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
