We all saw all when we saw An abandoned purchase basket. The buyer used it to pick up his bags home, placed everything and gave him laziness to return to the supermarket, so he left him in the landing of his building or, even worse, in the middle of the street. This is something much more common than we could think. In countries such as England, this has become a symbol of pollution. Not only because an abandoned iron knot in the middle of a street or rural area is an invasion of the landscape. Also because Environmental expenses To replace these purchases of carts in supermarkets of those who left, they are huge.
This is a conclusion achieved this year, a team of scientists from University of WarurikThey took the fields to refuse baskets, both in the United Kingdom and in other countries, Like South Africa and Australiaand then calculated Carbon trace This will mean the production and transportation of new carts to replace them.
They observed that pollution, especially what is associated with transportThis is huge. They also analyzed a carbon mark that will mean repairing baskets for purchases and returning them to their supermarket. Of course, this is much less, but this is still a problem. The ideal, of course, is that if we decide to take one of these carts, Let’s look at the problem to return them. If not, the establishments will have to take radical measures.
What is a carbon trace of replacing abandoned purchase carts?
In the United Kingdom, as we have already seen, the refusal to buy carts is amazing. It is estimated that some 520,000 From these objects.
Supermarkets cannot do without them, so they should replace them. If they produce new baskets for purchases, pollution is easy. Only diesel used by the van, which lead them to the destination, causes radiation to the atmosphere 343 metric tons of carbon dioxideThe field is equivalent, more or less, to pollution of 80 gasoline cars per year. This is not small.
On the other hand, if only 10 % of these cars require installation Zinc coating to prevent corrosion We would encounter twice tons of CO2. As for the full production of the new basket, these scientists calculated that this gives 65.14 kg CO2This thing is changing strongly with the collection and the return of the car, since Only 0.69 kg CO2 is emitted. It is clear that it is better to restore abandoned carts on the purchase, but sometimes they are too damaged or not directly found, so there is no choice but to make another.
What is the situation in Spain?
Figures found in South Africa and Australia They are also quite alarming. There are countries such as Spain that do not have such a clear calculation of the number of baskets that are abandoned. However, there are supermarket networks that control them.
Merkadona, For example, calculate that every year they are abandoned 65 carts for each of their supermarketsThe field is average. Logically there are supermarkets in which there is no basket, while in others they are much more than 65. The fact is that if it is average, and we take into account that in general there is About 1600 establishments Throughout the country we will talk about More than 100,000 carts Only in Mercadon.
We do not know whether Juan Roig is worried about the environment. Yes, it was made public that the money is concerned. We are not surprised. The fact is that each cart costs some 100 eurosThus, the replenishment of 100,000 carts costs 10 million euros per year. To avoid this, in recent years, the company has introduced a system that Blok the wheels of the baskets when they leave supermarketsThus, the field is avoided more.
Perhaps other supermarkets should join this system. Not for money, which in the case of large companies becomes not so much, but the environment. Because it does not matter if we are rich or poor, with small institutions or large surfaces. Climate change gradually damages the only planet that everyone has. It is worth taking care of the slightest details so as not to continue your course.
Source: Hiper Textual
