Amazon is phasing out plastic from the envelopes, bags, boxes and cushioning it uses to ship items, swapping in paper-based ...
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." ...
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 ...
Sustainability: News about the rapidly growing climate tech sector and other areas of innovation to protect our planet. SEE MORE by Kurt Schlosser on Dec 18, 2024 at 8:00 am December 18, 2024 at 8:26 ...
If you buy a new toy rocket ship from a company called Educational Insights, the cardboard box it comes in isn’t supposed to be recycled (or end up in the trash). In a redesign for its latest line of ...
No one questions the fact that ecommerce packaging waste is a major problem, clogging the planet with yet more plastic and cardboard. The twofold question then becomes, what is being done about it, ...
Even the tiniest purchases often end up in massive packaging. It's not necessarily company carelessness – but it's still a big problem. The saying goes, "good things come in small packages". But many ...