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.`

Dec 16 2022 by Business Insider

 
Amazon said it used 97,222 metric tons of single-use plastic to get orders to customers in 2021.

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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 reduce plastic pollution, which is piling up in landfills and oceans.

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