Dr Selene Silvestri, Research Scientist at the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics, discusses the environmental impact of e-commerce packaging.

• Measuring the cost of e-commerce packaging
• Growth in e-commerce and impact on packaging
• Benefits of recycling cardboard packaging
• E-commerce shifting the cardboard recycling burden from retailers to consumers
• Obstacles to higher recycling rates
• Current models to encourage recycling
• Regulations on reducing empty space in parcels
• Reducing the weight of packaging
• Reverse logistics framework to support recycling
• Efficiency and convenience of doorstep recycling collection
• Reusable packaging
• Consolidated recycling drop-off points