If you thought there wasn't a better way to get e-bikes into bike shops and customer's homes, then check this out. The cardboard box is out!
    • sopo@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Returnable via an extra shipping?? Yeah that’s absolute greenwash, it’s a bulky rigid EMPTY plastic box to be shipped back filling up more trucks and planes

      Edit: Sorry, just read that they fold down. That’s better, but I still doubt that the extra traveling it has to do is worth it compared to local recycling. I’d prefer a push toward monomaterial packaging (either all paper or all plastic, e.g. no metal clips or hard to remove plastic tape that end up in the paper recycling bins)

  • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏@lemmy.oneEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    According to the company, the reusable boxes can be used around 30 times before ultimately being recycled.

    In fact, Riese & Müller plans to use these reusable plastic boxes worldwide for both its bikes and small components.

    Not sure why they consider plastic to be a good material for this, wouldn’t an impact to the exterior compromise the structural strength of the plastic? Vs a cardboard box which will just get dented or impaled at the location of the impact, still being able to retain the majority of its structural stength?

    This smells like a green Maytag IMO. I see no reason why they could not accomplish the same reusable thing with cardboard