Fishing gear accounts for an alarming amount of plastic in oceans (2021)

Re:Fishing gear accounts for an alarming amount of plastic i... by kiliantics on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @08:43AM (#32410974)

It's possible to restrict vehicle size in urban centres, plenty of cities do. You can move things with smaller safer trucks and vans for the last mile. In some cases, this is even done with cargo bikes.

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Re:Fishing gear accounts for an alarming amount of plastic i... by throwaway894345 on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @09:03AM (#32411216)

I guess my point was “the trucks doing the last mile delivery aren’t going anywhere”, contrary to the parent’s claim that trucks are unnecessary and that rail will handle the last mile. I fully expect trucks will get smaller if only because no one is going to use an 18-wheeler to transport goods between a rail depot and a supermarket a mile or so down the street.

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Re:Fishing gear accounts for an alarming amount of plastic i... by williamscales on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @05:49PM (#32418879)

I don’t think rail will handle the last mile in all cases, but I also don’t think the last mile requires trucks. It’s the last mile. There are so many options besides semi trucks.

It’s worth looking at Switzerland where they have many electric spur lines that do handle the last mile.

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Re:Fishing gear accounts for an alarming amount of plastic i... by DocTomoe on Friday August 12, 2022 @02:44AM (#32435313)

You can repackage stuff and move that to urban centers ... but that comes with cost again. Cost that will be high enough so that urban centers don't make sense to deliver to anymore.

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