Convenient and responsible last mile. SwipBox® was founded in 2012 based on the idea of thinking last mile from a different perspective. This thinking quickly proved successful, with parcel lockers giving end users more freedom in terms of picking up their parcels, while also reducing the courier footprint by consolidating deliveries.
Since then, we have continued to focus on innovation, user-friendliness and reducing our environmental impact, and in 2019 we launched our app-operated, battery-driven Infinity parcel locker. Designed to satisfy diverse end user requirements, Infinity provides convenience to all users, including people with impaired vision and wheelchair users.
Energy efficient. The Infinity locker has a remarkably low power consumption thanks to a power-optimised chip and an extremely energy-efficient design. As a result the locker only uses the same amount of energy as brewing a pot of coffee – over a period of 10 years.
Highly recyclable. Efficiency has also been thought into the hardware construction, which boasts a high level of recyclability. In fact, 98.8% of the material can be split into recyclable components, further reducing the environmental impact. Our own Life Cycle Assessment (based on a product life of ten years) has shown that when recycled correctly, the Infinity locker has a climate footprint lower than the production of 2.5kg of fillet of beef (Infinity generates 324.7kg CO2e; fillet of beef generates 379.9kg CO2e).
A reduction in emissions of up to 32% We cannot control the final leg of the delivery journey, from the locker to the consumer's home. However, we can make an effort at minimising the impact on emissions. How? By recommending our customers to locate lockers in dense networks near end users. This way we can nudge end users to use more environmentally responsible methods of transportation or combine parcel pickups with errands.
In fact, such a locker location strategy can lead to a reduction in emissions of up to 32% compared to home deliveries. This is one of the conclusions reached in the Kontaktfri study (TØI report 1959/2023) based on Infinity lockers in Norway, carried out by Transportøkonomisk Institutt. This makes the lockers a promising alternative to home deliveries.
Responsible last-mile deliveries. With e-commerce volumes continuously increasing, reducing the carbon footprint in the last mile is as important as ever.
So how can we in the last-mile industry make a difference? How do we communicate our efforts – and how do we avoid greenwashing?
Check out the Green Last Mile report to find out our take on this (pp. 54-57 and 66-69).
