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Cost effectiveness and convenience is crucial to facilitate recycling

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Cost effectiveness and convenience is crucial to facilitate recycling

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can e commoerce company reduce environmental harm while at the same time keeping their business profitable?

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can e commoerce company reduce environmental harm while at the same time keeping their business profitable?

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-research shown that 48% of e-commerce customer consider environmental impact of their purchase, hence more e-shoppers are willing to support company that are more green and cause lesser environmental harm.
-this allow those company to go green while keeping their profits up, as through going green the company are able to produce lesser goods.
-However, we need consider that it might not be cost effective for company to go green as the profit it brings might be outweigh by the loss it can incurred on their business

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Firms can invest in sustainable packaging that protects cargo from being damaged.
However, it is costly and ultimately a firm's goal is to benefit themselves financially.

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Consumers can pressure e-commerce companies to push for more sustainable options. For example, the 'Go Green' option in RedMart, allows RedMart to make more optimized delivery times, and hence fewer emissions and resources are used to deliver goods to a customer's house.

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Solutions to mitigate/alleviate the strain on our environment

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Solutions to mitigate/alleviate the strain on our environment

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Exploitations of Powerful E-commerce Companies

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Exploitations of Powerful E-commerce Companies

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Tax avoidance
Inhumane working conditions
Minimum wage

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E-commerce coincides with the acceleration of climate change, breaking point of natural ecosystems, and wealth inequality creating instability

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Can be good, can be bad
- good: protects goods from becoming damaged -> less emissions
- bad: packaging today is not sustainable. To make sustainable packaging = more money spent by companies, and not many companies are willing to cost extra

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Transportation of large amount of goods produce large amount of carbon emission, shipping of goods on cargo, to delivery of your ordered goods online contribute to carbon emission

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The high carbon emissions caused by E-commerce, which is not necessarily less than that of typical businesses, are largely contributed by the transportation and logistics of these businesses

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Concentrating huge power into the hands of E-commerce giants like Amazon and Alibaba.

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Less than desired quality, not to mention the stunning amount of waste, due to materials, packaging waste, and energy burned for transport of goods

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Compulsive shopping, a behavioral disorder

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Compulsive shopping, a behavioral disorder

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People with compulsive shopping end up prioritising quantity over quality.