Solutions Week: The Cost Of Food Delivery

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🗓️ 10 September 2024

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Since the height of the pandemic, there has been a boom in the use of food delivery services. Day 2 of NPR's Climate Solutions Week is all about the environmental impacts of how we shop for our food. So in this episode, NPR correspondent Scott Neuman reports on a question we've all wanted to know the answer to: What is the impact of getting food delivered on our carbon footprint?

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0:22.0	All right, Shortwaivers, Emily Kwong here.
0:25.0	We are deep in NPR's annual Climate Solutions Week, and this year's theme is Food, and
0:32.0	in day two of our journey through food,
0:34.0	Scott Newman is here to talk with me about how we shop.
0:37.1	There has been a true boom in the ways
0:40.4	we order food online for delivery to our homes right Scott.
0:43.6	Yeah there are so many options for online grocery delivery.
0:47.2	There's DoorDash and UberEats.
0:49.2	Also you know those
0:54.3	too. All of these services grew in the early pandemic when people were
0:58.0	quarantining and isolating and they've just continued to grow at
1:01.6	pretty substantial rates as time has gone on.
1:04.0	To understand this, you visited a family in the DC suburb of Silver Spring who use a lot of these types of services.
1:11.3	Hi.
1:12.3	Hi, I'm Scott. Gerald, nice to meet you. Nice to meet you. a lot of these types of services. Hi.
1:12.6	Gerald, nice to meet you.
1:14.6	Yeah, earlier this summer I dropped in on the Dupu C family.
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