In New York City, daily deliveries have exploded in a single decade from 360,000 to 1.5 million. A scooter delivery service in China dispatched 30 million food orders on one summer weekend. Our lives are easier, but at what cost? Nearly a third of waste in the United States derives from delivery packaging. All that cardboard requires 1 billion trees to manufacture it. And our demand continues to grow, driving Amazon and its competitors to stockpile items they expect you to buy.

Is it just the trash? No. Society’s addiction to instant retail gratification is also taxing urban infrastructure, while Amazon annually pumps out 44.4 million tons of carbon dioxide.

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