Since 2015, Amazon has reduced the weight of outbound packaging by 38 percent and eliminated more than 1.5 million tons of packaging material, thanks to programs such as Frustration-Free Packaging.

In June, Amazon announced it had eliminated 95% of the plastic air fillers used for packaging, replacing them with paper filler ... The use of paper filler does still create waste that can end up in ...

Meanwhile, only four made it to material recovery facilities that ... Two of them said they do not accept Amazon packaging, and the third said it does not accept plastic at all.