Plastic pollution has always been a concern when it comes to our environment but it has dramatically increased as a result of Amazon’s meteoric rise especially during the COVID pandemic.

environment Amazon is replacing all plastic air pillows with crumpled paper in its packaging The company says the paper offers equal or better protection By Rob Thubron June 21, 2024, 7:36 AM 16 ...

The estimated plastic waste, in the form of air pillows alone, could circle the Earth more than 600 times. Amazon still uses tons of plastic annually in other forms of packaging like delivery bags ...

In the past, a typical box from Amazon arrived packed with plastic air pillows. Last year, the company used nearly 15 billion of the inflatable cushions for deliveries in North America alone.

Amazon is shifting from the plastic air pillows used for packaging in North America to recycled paper because it's more environmentally sound, and it says paper just works better. The company said ...

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. By Catherine Boudreau ...