Environmental Impact of Last Mile Deliveries and Returns in Fashion ECommerce: A CrossCase Analysis of Six Retailers The convenience of shopping online has changed the way consumers buy pieces of clothing  getting fast deliveries of multiple items in various colors and sizes and returning the ones they dislike. Unfortunately, this comes with a rise in shipping volumes, in terms of both last mile (LM) and returns, which ultimately carries negative externalities on the environment. Thus, the purpose of this paper is to analyze the environmental impact of fashion ecommerce LM deliveries and returns, identify improvement opportunities and derive initial recommendations for greener practices. Conducting a crosscase analysis on six retailers, we conclude that the environmental impact from LM deliveries and returns deserves a higher priority for it is rapidly growing. While large firms execute numerous green initiatives and involve their logistics service providers, their increasingly high return rates create large negative impacts on the environment. Smaller companies, on the other hand, demonstrate little initiative and interest in investing efforts to improve their environmental impact even though these may result in higher economic returns.

Exploring Green Logistics Management in Thai Small and MediumSized Food Exporters This study aims to explore green logistics management (GLM) in Thai small and mediumsized (SME) food exporters. At first, indepth interviews with representativesexperts in the relevant industry were undertaken to identify the main activities regarding GLM guided by indicators drawn from the relevant literature. Then, a questionnaire was deployed to gather data from representatives of Thai SME food exporters through purposive sampling, which 52 firms completed. Statistical analysis, including Chisquare tests and ttests, was undertaken for hypothesis testing. The findings indicate that the levels of the production and marketing aspects of engagement in GLM, are the highest and lowest, respectively. The results also reveal that the GLM activity of SME food exporters is independent of ISO14000 implementation. Finally, the evidence confirms that Thai SME food exporters implementing ISO14000 have significantly higher levels of GLM when compared to their nonimplementing counterparts in all the tested dimensions.