| How convenient is online shopping for all of us! It is | | | | More Pollution: |
| interesting and offers a wide range in the products | | | | A big negative impact online shopping has had on |
| that we are looking for. What's more, we get to do | | | | environment is the amount of non-recyclable |
| it minus the traveling to the shops and stores. While | | | | materials that come with products ordered online. |
| the entire world is learning about online shopping and | | | | These hard to recycle materials are basically bubble |
| getting engaged in to it, lets see how it affects our | | | | wrap, foam rubber and expanded polystyrene. This |
| environment. Does it leave an impact on our | | | | expanded polystyrene is also known as Styrofoam. |
| environment? Is the impact positive or negative? | | | | Making the Manufacturers Responsible: |
| Online shopping like discussed above means less | | | | A European style method can be followed to stop |
| travel time and lower costs but have you ever | | | | the wastes being pushed to the curbside. This |
| wondered about the large effects it has on our daily | | | | strategy comes into effect when you shift the |
| lives and our surroundings? | | | | responsibility of the waste processing of worn out |
| Is the Impact Positive or Negative? | | | | products from municipalities to the manufacturers |
| Its impact on the environment is negative | | | | themselves. This will serve as a welfare system too. |
| encouraging more trash at the curbside. Almost | | | | It's About The Packaging: |
| every online retailer relies on major carriers to deliver | | | | Even delivering the same products with less |
| their goods. Eventually there is a rise not only in the | | | | packaging is advisable to stop the environment from |
| local deliveries but also in the amount of paper, mixed | | | | being ruined. An effective solution would be |
| paper, plastic and cardboard that is pushed into the | | | | developing two-way packaging that eliminates the |
| city waste stream. The lack of studies on the overall | | | | waste. |
| online shopping "life cycle" has made products go | | | | Online shopping has taken the world by storm and will |
| from raw materials to the consumer's wastebasket. | | | | continue to do so for long. But, a little care has to be |
| Environmentalists are showing a great concern | | | | taken to make sure its impact is always positive and |
| towards this. They have understood from surveys | | | | never negative in our lives and the environment. If |
| that the negatives are by far greater than the | | | | this is done, then all combined together, this shopping |
| positives on environment. E-commerce has negative | | | | experience with all its procedures will prove to be |
| effects on the environment. | | | | beneficial to one and all! |