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Etsy Wants to Make Your Home Delivery Carbon Free
The online marketplace says 98% of its fossil fuel footprint comes from getting packages to your door.
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That bespoke necklace or twee craft you buy on Etsy Inc.’s marketplace now comes with a pledge that some of the fuel burned to get it to your door is being offset by green investments.
The New York-based e-commerce company said Wednesday that it will begin buying carbon offsets to manage the environmental impact of sellers and buyers shipping items sold on its website, becoming what may be the first U.S. e-commerce firm to take that step. Carbon offsets let a company that emits greenhouse gases buy credits from a green project that’s reducing carbon in the atmosphere.