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From Field to Shelf - The environmental cost of online shopping

2020-01-15 18:59:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com

E-commerce has been a boon for the fashion retail industry. But it also comes with a cost: the overnight deliveries and corresponding returns add dramatically to the carbon footprint of our industry, whether we like to admit it or not, says Robert Antoshak, managing director at Olah Inc.

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