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This Week in Logistics News (September 16 – 22)

Logistics Viewpoints

David Ho, a climate scientist at the University of Hawaii, wasn’t buying it. Amazon unveiled an initiative to persuade its sellers to reduce their carbon footprints, reuse and recycle more of their material, and cut the amount of packaging they use when shipping products. There is no such thing as a carbon-neutral product,” he says.

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Sustainable eCommerce: Examples of Environmentally Friendly Online Retail

Ware2Go

Packaging- especially plastics- are creating an environmental emergency of their own. Oceana reports that Amazon’s plastic packaging waste jumped 18% from 2021 to 2022, contributing to the problem of littering the world’s oceans ( 33 billion pounds of plastic enter the ocean every year). million cars to the road.

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Sustainable eCommerce: Five Brands Leading the Way

Ware2Go

Small parcel deliveries also significantly increase packaging waste. A report by Oceana estimates that we could circle the world 500 times with just the protective plastic pillows Amazon shipped out in their packages in 2019. All of this adds up to a heavy burden placed on the environment by ecommerce activity.

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What are Ecommerce Shipping Zones?

Supply Chain Game Changer

Carriers such as FedEx, UPS, and USPS use shipping zones to determine the shipping cost of a package. For example, if a package originates at Red Stag Fulfillment’s Knoxville warehouse, the origin ZIP code starts with 377. That is Zone 8 for a UPS package shipped from Knoxville. A shipment to Hawaii falls into Zone 45.

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Leveling the Playing Field for Small Businesses

Elementum

Leg Avenue, a provocative costume manufacturer based in Los Angeles, California, chose to partner with UPS after seeing the challenge in delivering a large volume of small packages. Companies can save up to $5 per package by processing their waybills electronically, as shipping companies charge up to $5 for these documents.

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Air Freight Explained: Calculating Costs and Price Trends

Freightos

Reliability – People are pickier than packages, which has encouraged the freight market to develop more dependable freight services, and combined with better air freight data movement, shipping by air provides better air freight tracking and the knowledge that your goods will get to the right place at the right time.

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Leveling the Playing Field for Small Businesses

Elementum

Leg Avenue, a provocative costume manufacturer based in Los Angeles, California, chose to partner with UPS after seeing the challenge in delivering a large volume of small packages. Companies can save up to $5 per package by processing their waybills electronically for shipping companies charge up to $5 for these documents.