Amazon's Plastic Forest

Amazon generated a total of 599 million pounds of plastic packaging waste in 2020, a 29% increase from 2019.

Data from Oceana estimates the amount of plastic waste, in the form of air pillows, can circle Earth more than 600 times.

Also, Oceana estimates that as much as 23.5 million pounds of the total waste entered the world’s waterways and seas, and adds that the online retailer’s recycling pledges and claims do not add up and do not lessen Amazon’s huge plastic packaging waste footprint.

In India, however, Amazon’s recycling programs and efforts to remove single-use plastic packaging are helping the company reduce its plastic pollution problem.

You can read the report here.

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