Business Franchise Australia & New Zealand

Last year, the growth of online shopping to 57 per cent led to a significant increase in delivery vehicles on roads. In fact, Australia’s transport sector is responsible for nearly a fifth of the country’s carbon emissions. Our latest research reveals that 68 per cent of Australians would choose lower-carbon-emitting parcel delivery methods, an emerging consumer behaviour we believe retailers and carriers need to respond to.

5 WAYS RETAILERS AND CARRIERS CAN REDUCE THEIR CARBON FOOTPRINT

David McLean is the founder and CEO of leading agnostic Australian parcel collection point network, Hubbed. David founded Hubbed in 2014, after more than 20 years’ experience in the finance and technology industries, working at organisations including Microsoft, Datacom and UBS. He has since grown Hubbed to a network of 2000-plus Australian locations includes major retail and service station chains that has managed parcels for carriers such as TOLL, Couriers Please, DHL, FedEx, TNT, UPS and Sendle.

Australia Post, 2021 auspost.com.au/content/dam/auspost_corp/media/documents/ecommerce-industry-report-2021.pdf

University of Wollongong, 2020 uow.edu.au/media/2020/transport-is-letting-australia-down-in-the-race-to-cut-emissions.php

Based on a survey commissioned by leading agnostic parcel collection network Hubbed, of 1000 Australians who shopped online at least three times in the last three months

5 WAYS RETAILERS AND CARRIERS CAN REDUCE THEIR CARBON FOOTPRINT

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