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Last year, even as the number of Amazon orders grew, the e-commerce giant managed to shrink its plastic footprint. The amount of single-use plastic that it used in shipping dropped by 11.6% from 2021 to 2022, the company said in a sustainability report this week. That meant eliminating around 25 million pounds of plastic.
It’s the latest step as the company tries to tackle the massive amount of packaging it uses. To reduce cardboard, Amazon uses machine-learning software to analyze each item in an order so it can choose the best packaging to protect products with as little material as possible.
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