Amazon says its plastic packaging can be recycled. An investigation finds it usually isn't.
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Trackers placed in 93 bundles of Amazon packaging marked for "store drop-off" recycling showed many of them were buried or burned.
  • brap@lemmy.world
    5·
    9 months ago

    Is this some regional thing? Everything I’ve ever ordered from Amazon has come in a card box or thick paper bag and even has paper tape.

    • Showroom7561@lemmy.ca
      2·
      9 months ago

      Random.

      I can get 8 items at one time… Two will be in a box, four will be in paper bags, and two will be in plastic bags.

      For such an automated company, you’d think that everything would just be in a single box.

      • ApexHunter
        2·
        9 months ago

        Your order(s) don’t necessarily ship all of the items from the same warehouse.

        • Showroom7561@lemmy.ca
          1·
          9 months ago

          But each item from a different warehouse?

          I used to get everything in single boxes before. Now it’s always multiple packages.

      • 0xD@infosec.pub
        1·
        9 months ago

        This is speculation, but it’s probably a lot faster and cheaper to just pack and ship instead of collecting first, and then packing and shipping.

        • Showroom7561@lemmy.ca
          1·
          9 months ago

          I can’t see it being cheaper, since those packages aren’t free. Faster? Not sure about that, either. Amazon automates a lot of their process, and the separate items would still need to gather in one place to be shipped together anyway. Packing a half dozen separate items is surely less efficient than packing everything in one box.

          Again, this wasn’t a problem a few years ago, when everything would come in a single box. The greenwashing by Amazon about their plastic bags is 10 steps backwards, IMO.