Amazon's United States of Plastic - The e-commerce giant’s plastic packaging problem

and globally.12 © Shutterstock/Jenari 4 Amazon's United States of Plastic E-commerce Growth and Plastic Packaging E-commerce accounted for 35% of all retail sales packaging in 2022, 14.6% more than the previous globally in 2022, up from 18% in 2017.13 Estimated year.16 Over 20% of this plastic was used in the U. [...] S.,19 where Amazon currently holds a 30.5% following the commitments it has made to date — its share of the retail e-commerce market.20 plastic use declined by 11.6% from 2021 to 2022 for shipments from its fulfillment centers.29 The company Amazon has refused to commit to phase out plastic reported in 2021 that it used 107,169 tons (97,222 packaging in the U. [...] In our calculations, (10% in 2021).37 Oceana also requested data directly we used the upper estimate of the rate of plastic from Amazon about its plastic footprint in the U. [...] Customers who visit the secret shoppers looked into the plastic recycling Amazon’s Second Chance website and scroll down to bins, they only saw Amazon packaging in the bins in images of plastic packaging (such as the blue and white 17% of the stores surveyed. [...] Amazon to phase out plastic packaging in its largest market — the United States — and make a company- Amazon has the power to implement company-wide wide commitment to reduce the total amount of plastic changes that would significantly reduce the amount of packaging it uses by at least one-third by 2030.