Packaging
Our customers want right-sized, recyclable packaging that minimizes waste and ensures damage-free delivery. We work to reinvent and simplify our sustainable packaging options using a science-based approach that combines lab testing, machine learning, materials science, and manufacturing partnerships to scale sustainable change across the packaging supply chain.
Designing packaging for Amazon starts with the customer and works backwards so we can deliver products they’ll love.
We are collaborating with others to reduce packaging waste for our customers and the planet. Since 2015, we have reduced the weight of outbound packaging per shipment by more than 36% and eliminated over 1 million tons of packaging material—that is the equivalent of 2 billion shipping boxes.
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A packaging innovation in our fulfilment centres in 100 cities in India means delivering products packaging-free. -
Amazon India unveils long-term sustainable packaging initiatives; aims to eliminate single use plastic packaging by June 2020. Paper cushions will replace plastic dunnage in all Amazon India Fulfilment Centers by the end of the year. -
The company had made a pledge in September 2019 to meet this goal in an accelerated timeframe by June 2020 in an effort to build an environmentally sustainable supply chain.
“Did you know?” facts about Amazon packaging innovations
We work to optimize the packaging experience for our customers. This includes driving improvements in the sustainability of packaging across Amazon’s supply chain, starting with our own products and operations.
