Amazon is trying to get rid of its signature brown boxes. The retail shipping giant has a long way to go

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/01/amazons-long-journey-to-get-rid-of-its-signature-brown-boxes.html

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  1. Every year, the U.S. goes through enough cardboard boxes for shipping to pave a one-mile-wide road from New York City to Los Angeles three times, or build a mile-high cardboard wall around the entire continental U.S.

    Among the primary targets to help reduce this mountain of packaging, the most notable may be the Amazon shipping box or envelope. In 2022, 11% of Amazon orders worldwide were sent in original manufacturer packaging. The company has yet to release its 2023 figure for the initiative designed to get rid of Amazon’s signature brown box, called the [Ships in Product Packaging](https://www.amazon-packaging.com/sellers) program.

    It identifies products that might work, contacts vendors and then, to ensure that packages won’t be damaged during delivery, Amazon works with those companies to test products in a lab. Packages need to be able to survive drops off a conveyor belt, vibrations and shaking on the truck or the delivery person accidentally dropping the package while walking to the door.

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  2. Remember this isn’t just Amazon, this is YOU and Amazon.

    Amazon will never ship something if you don’t ask them and give them money to do so. They do it because you ask them to.

    If we didn’t ask Amazon to ship us boxes of stuff they wouldn’t be in business.

    If you really care about packaging waste, REDUCE your consumption by stop ordering mail order items that you can buy locally, and just stop buying “stuff” you don’t really need or are just going to throw away (plastic easter eggs….)

    Start buying bulk items in containers you REUSE.

    Stop buying products that contain water (gels, liquids) when you can buy things in concentrated or powdered form which require far less packaging.

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