Purva Shah

According to research from ocean conservation charity Oceana, plastic
air pillows and bubble wrap accounted for most of the waste from Amazon deliveries, the use of which has risen rapidly in recent years. The report, which surmised that Amazon sent some 7 billion deliveries last year alone, calculated that the combined length of the air pillows used by Amazon in one year would circle the Earth 500 times.

Even before 2020’s e-commerce shopping binge, the huge amount of plastic waste generated by Amazon deliveries posed serious problems for global waterways, according to a report from environmental nonprofit Oceana.
The company has boosted the amount of plastic packaging it uses each of the last three years, the report said.