Feeling guilty about all those blue-and-white plastic Amazon bags piling up around the house? Fear not — they can be recycled! At least, that’s what the packaging says. For years now, Amazon’s plastic ...

Over the past year, Amazon has reduced the portion of shipments it packs in its cardboard boxes in favor of lightweight plastic mailers, which enable the retailing giant to squeeze more packages in ...

For years, the familiar brown Amazon box has been a ubiquitous sight on doorsteps worldwide. Yet, with its convenience came a growing chorus of criticism: too much cardboard, too much plastic, and too ...

Inside an Amazon warehouse, when an order gets ready to ship, a worker doesn’t just make a decision about what package seems best. Instead, a suite of machine-learning tools analyze the combination of ...

Say goodbye to the guilt generated by those plastic air pillows stuffed into your Amazon purchase — the company announced earlier this month it's ceasing use of the eco-unfriendly packaging material. ...

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 ...

Amazon is making another sustainable change. While the online retail giant still has a long way to go to reduce its pollution, its new packaging switch is designed to decrease the company's negative ...

According to a report by ocean advocacy organisation Oceana, Amazon’s plastic footprint increased by nearly a fifth (18 per cent) between 2020 and 2021. Amazon generated more than 300 million ...

Sustainability: News about the rapidly growing climate tech sector and other areas of innovation to protect our planet. SEE MORE by Lisa Stiffler on Apr 28, 2025 at 8:11 am May 5, 2025 at 8:18 am Lexi ...

Rolled out in collaboration with Enviroserve, the new Amazon initiative supports the UAE’s Green Agenda 2030 Dubai, United Arab Emirates – Amazon UAE today launched a new recycling initiative that ...

The US retail giant Amazon has been criticised by customers for increasing its use of plastic packaging. While UK supermarkets and shops try to use less plastic, Amazon earlier this year introduced a ...