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Back to nature: Zepto to Instamart, how quick-commerce firms are vrooming towards a green future

Back to nature: Zepto to Instamart, how quick-commerce firms are vrooming towards a green future
Back to nature: Zepto to Instamart, how quick-commerce firms are vrooming towards a green future
Increased awareness and investor expectations are driving a wider shift to sustainability among e-commerce and delivery firms.

Synopsis

The USD60-billion e-commerce sector has contributed alarmingly to India’s plastic waste menace over the years. While the 2022 ban on single-use plastic was a beginning, increased awareness and investor expectations are driving a wider shift to sustainability among e-commerce and delivery firms.

In 2021, veterinarians in Faridabad, Haryana, pulled out 71 kg of waste, including plastic, from a pregnant cow which died three days later. Last year, an Indian gaur died in Tamil Nadu’s Ooty after consuming plastic. A study published by The Journal for Nature Conservation last year found traces of plastic in elephant dung collected from the forests of Uttarakhand. Though there are no official figures on animal deaths due to plastic, it is
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The Economic Times