A look inside Amazon’s push to eliminate plastic packaging

Amazon is phasing out plastic from the envelopes, bags, boxes and cushioning it uses to ship items, swapping in paper-based ...
USA Today

Amazon announces 'largest reduction in plastic packaging,' doing away with air pillows

Amazon is changing how it boxes packages, swapping out plastic air pillows with recycled paper, a move the company says is more eco-friendly and will provide just as much protection, "if not better." ...
Business Insider

Amazon used enough plastic air packets in its boxes to circle the planet 800 times in 2021, an outside group found. The company said it used far less.

Amazon said its plastic packaging footprint came to 97,222 metric tons in 2021. The environmental group Oceana estimates the waste was more than three times that amount. Amazon is under pressure to ...