Title :
Life cycle comparison of traditional retail and e-commerce logistics for electronic products: A case study of buy.com
Author :
Weber, Christopher L. ; Hendrickson, Chris T. ; Matthews, H. Scott ; Nagengast, Amy ; Nealer, Rachael ; Jaramillo, Paulina
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Civil & Environ. Eng., Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Abstract :
This analysis compares e-commerce versus traditional retail systems energy use and greenhouse gas emissions through a case study of a product chosen to represent the retail process. We conclude that e-commerce has lower energy use and GHG emissions for our case study.
Keywords :
air pollution; consumer products; electronic commerce; electronic products; logistics data processing; remaining life assessment; retail data processing; consumer products; e-commerce logistics; electronic products; greenhouse gas emissions; life cycle comparison; retail system; Costs; DVD; Electronic commerce; Global warming; Logistics; Manufacturing processes; Packaging; Power engineering and energy; Supply chains; Transportation; Life cycle; e-commerce; logistics;
Conference_Titel :
Sustainable Systems and Technology, 2009. ISSST '09. IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Phoenix, AZ
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4324-6
DOI :
10.1109/ISSST.2009.5156681
