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Online shopping blues: Your cardboard footprint, and what you can do to reduce it

Maybe you’ve had this experience: A gigantic box arrives on your porch. For a second, you think it’s a gift. But there inside, beneath all of the packing paper and bubble wrap is a disappointingly small item you’d ordered online.

We all see what seems like an ocean of wasted packaging in consumer goods.

So the Chicago Sun-Times and the ABC7 I-Team decided to look at whether our love for online shopping is harming the environment and found a mixed bag.

Yes, consumers are getting more boxes. And delivery drivers are making more trips to our homes.