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Walmart Canada launches carbon offset delivery

4 March 2022

Walmart Canada is now offering its e-commerce customers carbon-neutral shipping on items including groceries.

The company said it is now funding a carbon-offset program that will be administered by EcoCart. Walmart said the program will offset an estimated 25,000 tons of scope 3 emissions generated by Walmart’s last-mile deliveries. That is the equivalent of saving 1 million trees or removing 5,000 cars from the roads in a single year, the company said.

“Funding carbon offsets for last-mile...

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Faster. Cheaper. Greener: Accenture’s plan for a sustainable last mile

25 March 2021

As e-commerce packages zip across the country from warehouse to doorstep, the number of emissions continue to grow. The king of the genre, Amazon’s (NASDAQ: AMZN) Jeff Bezos, claims that e-commerce is more environmentally friendly than in-store shopping.

“Amazon’s sustainability scientists have spent more than three years developing the models, tools and metrics to measure our carbon footprint,” Bezos wrote in a shareholder letter in early 2020. “Their detailed analysis has found that shopping...

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Minimizing e-commerce’s carbon impact: How one company is accomplishing it

1 February 2021

The growth of e-commerce has made shopping more convenient for consumers, especially during the past year as the world grappled with stay-at-home orders because of the COVID-19 pandemic, but it has also put more vehicles on the road and shipping boxes into the supply chain.

The result is a global increase in carbon dioxide (CO2). According to Shopify, the e-commerce platform designed for many smaller retailers, greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere are at their highest levels in history,...

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