Amazon has replaced single-use plastic air pillows with recycled paper in 95 percent of its delivery boxes in North America. A full switch is planned by the 2024 holiday retail season.The move, announced June 20, will cut an estimated 15 billion of these cushions annually and follows a similar elimination process in Europe in the summer of 2022. Approximately 40 percent of Amazon orders are shipped in these boxes. The Seattle-based retailer has cut 37,150 tons of plastic packaging since 2020, but it still used 85,916 tons of single-use plastic in 2022.​ Eliminating the pillows represents Amazon’s biggest plastic reduction yet. Amazon is phasing out single-use plastics across its worldwide delivery network. The company eliminated extra packaging completely by shipping about 11 percent of items in their original boxes. It is also switching from plastic to paper envelopes, a process that began earlier this year.​https://www.greenbiz.com/article/amazon-eliminates-15-billion-plastic-air-pillows-delivery-boxes?utm_campaign=greenbuzz&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&mkt_tok=MjExLU5KWS0xNjUAAAGT6ODH1_xpYhj_aCn962OUllV982EXcZk6C_MRRqaR3bckBOu19AsebSjo6EVXZr3CklFWKz7Pak4043YAAyB7C_hfbo-SbhKrg-mGEcMmy8HtxdI (ICE LOS ANGELES)

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