What is Ship Greener?
Online shopping isn’t going away but it is time for the giants to ship differently. We are asking major online retailers to use the correct size boxes with minimal filling and no plastic at all. When possible, we are asking retailers such as Amazon, Walmart, and Target to ship products that have their own rigid packaging without any additional boxes or plastic packaging. By creating these simple changes, we will immediately reduce millions of pounds of plastic and cardboard waste.
Why is this important?
850 MILLION tons of paper and cardboard are discarded annually, equaling approximately 1 Billion trees.
Amazon alone ships 1.7 million packages a day and just the # of plastic air pillows used/year could encircle the planet 500x.
Our planet needs us to reduce our footprint as much as possible.
Take Action TODAY
Join us by emailing Amazon, Walmart and Target to Ship Greener! Our request is that they ship more responsibly and ship with less unnecessary packaging. Many products even have their own “rigid packaging” and do not require any additional boxes or plastic packaging. With just 1 click, you can send letters to these companies requesting less packaging in our online orders.
Major Win! Amazon Joins Ship Greener, Eliminating 15 Billion Plastic Pillows Annually
“We are working towards full removal [of plastic pillows] in North America by end of [2024] and will continue to innovate, test, and scale in order to prioritize curbside recyclable materials.”
Pat Lindner, VP of Mechatronics and Sustainable Packaging Read the full article here.
The Scope of the Problem
A recent study by Oceana found that Amazon.com generated 465 million pounds of plastic packaging waste in 2019. The number of plastic air pillows could circle the globe 500 times. Oceana further estimated that up to 22.44 million pounds of Amazon.com’s plastic packaging ended up in the world’s freshwater and marine ecosystems as pollution in the same year, or “roughly equivalent to a delivery van’s worth of plastic being dumped into major rivers, lakes, and the oceans every 70 minutes.”
Shipping companies support Ship Greener! Smaller packaging means less trucks on the road and that's better for business and for the planet.
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