Turn your delivery boxes and paper bags into cash
The rise of quick-commerce has led to an accumulation of packaging waste in households. The article suggests that instead of discarding these materials, consumers can repurpose or sell them to small businesses like home bakers and thrift stores.
Why it matters
It addresses the growing environmental impact of rapid e-commerce delivery and offers a circular economy solution for household waste.
Your parcel arrived in 10 minutes. Your excitement lasted only five. And, the cardboard box and paper bag it arrived in, remained for much longer.This is the strange afterlife of online shopping. A late-night craving becomes a quick-commerce order. A “limited-time” sale becomes a new outfit. And an item gets added to the cart because you are only ₹20 short of free delivery. Over time, our shopping habits begin to reveal themselves not through bank statements, but through the pile of boxes, bags and packaging collecting at our home.Quick commerce has made shopping almost frictionless. Groceries, toiletries, stationery and snacks can arrive at our doorstep before we have had enough time to reconsider whether we even needed them in the first place.
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