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Carbon Footprint of Alternative Grocery Shopping and Transportation Options from Retail Distribution Centers to Customer
- Source :
- Environmental sciencetechnology. 56(16)
- Publication Year :
- 2022
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Abstract
- The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the growth of e-commerce and automated warehouses, vehicles, and robots and has created new options for grocery supply chains. We report and compare the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for a 36-item grocery basket transported along 72 unique paths from a centralized warehouse to the customer, including impacts of micro-fulfillment centers, refrigeration, vehicle automation, and last-mile transportation. Our base case is in-store shopping with last-mile transportation using an internal combustion engine (ICE) SUV (6.0 kg CO
Details
- ISSN :
- 15205851
- Volume :
- 56
- Issue :
- 16
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Environmental sciencetechnology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....e9d82f0414b24dfdc078665528b51bf9