Now time to curb online deliveries
Online deliveries were a wonderful lifeline during full lockdown, and they still are for many, but wherever possible it is now time to make a change, and limit their use.
Why? Because online delivery services are not at all eco-friendly; they involve many large diesel vans making individual deliveries of groceries, clothes, books and many other items that would otherwise all have been transported by one car, now often an electric car.
Even when the delivery companies try to coordinate deliveries to a particular area, it often doesn’t reduce the individual nature of the deliveries by much.
Much, much, better for one individual to make the journey to town and buy most of the household requirement at one time. One electric car journey versus three, four, or more large diesel van journeys.
Secondly, the economy needs us to change; we must buy locally and reverse the current online trend before even more Bath shops disappear. Thirdly, whenever it is possible, personal shopping involves more exercise and even has mental health benefits.
Finally, I would mention that these large diesel delivery vans race around Bath streets, accelerating
hard, creating pollution, parking on pavements, parking on double yellow lines, banging plastic crates, and they do all of this up to 10pm or later at night.
So my message is, unless you really must stay at home, do not order online.