E-commerce costs society €45,000 a day

That the carbon footprint of home parcel deliveries is bad has been shown before, including by VIL. One of the conclusions of its ‘e-Green’ project last year is that pick-up points are an efficient way to drastically reduce both the cost of the last mile and the carbon footprint. But e-shoppers opt for delivery to their own or a self-selected address. Just those deliveries have a high cost, simulations show.