Waste (photo: Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office)
Say you order a pair of shoes online. The oversized box comes in; you cut it open to reveal more packaging and the shoebox, and then you finally get to your shoes, which are surrounded by a pile of cardboard, paper, and plastic. You’re a thoughtful, environmentally conscious New Yorker, so you take the gargantuan box out to the curb for recycling and throw out the extras that you can’t recycle.
Here’s the thing, though – your online retailer didn’t have to send you a box three
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