Terrible Home & Life Habits That Are Harming The Wildlife Around You

15.Shopping Online

Think about all those packages you receive in the mail from Amazon. Even though the convenience is unbeatable, considering you don’t have to drive anywhere, avoid traffic, and even avoid talking to people, the waste that comes with online shopping is horrendous. Plastic wrapping and styrofoam end up in landfills, which take hundreds to thousands of years to decompose if they even do decompose. Modern consumerism is horrendous for the environment and wildlife, which may end up accidentally eating our trash.

According to Earth, “The transport of goods across the world is responsible for a huge portion of CO2 emissions generated by e-commerce. In 2020, the shipping and return of products accounted for 37% of the total GHG emissions. The major problem can be attributed, once again, to the consumers’ appetite for convenience. It is estimated that by 2030, the number of delivery vehicles will increase by 36%, reaching approximately 7.2 million vehicles.” The CO2 emissions from vehicles, in addition to the plastic waste that comes with online shopping, is an equation for a catastrophe (Earth).