Carbon Footprint of Alternative Grocery Shopping and Transportation Options from Retail Distribution Centers to Customer.
Grocery e-commerce
autonomous vehicle
greenhouse gas emissions
last-mile
micro-fulfillment center
shopping frequency
trip chaining
Journal
Environmental science & technology
ISSN: 1520-5851
Titre abrégé: Environ Sci Technol
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 0213155
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
16 08 2022
16 08 2022
Historique:
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Résumé
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
Identifiants
pubmed: 35930734
doi: 10.1021/acs.est.2c02050
doi:
Substances chimiques
Greenhouse Gases
0
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
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