Amazon will stop using those little plastic pillows in its packaging

Jordan Valinsky, CNN

New York (CNN) — Amazon is eliminating nan usage of nan puffy integrative aerial pillows utilized successful transportation boxes, joining different awesome companies that are cutting their integrative use.

The institution said it was shipping 15 cardinal integrative pillows annually, and nan changes correspond its largest integrative packaging simplification effort successful North America. Amazon has already stopped utilizing them successful 95% of deliveries and they will extremity wholly by nan extremity of nan year.

A caller insubstantial filler made from 100% recycled contented will switch nan integrative pillows. Amazon says it offers nan same, if not better, protection to products.

The announcement comes up of Prime Day, nan shopping spectacular held successful July, which Amazon said that astir each of its Prime Day deliveries will beryllium free of integrative aerial pillows.

Amazon has stopped utilizing integrative pillows successful different countries, including Australia, India and nations crossed Europe, successful caller years, which resulted nan institution successful utilizing astir 12% little integrative successful 2023 compared to nan twelvemonth prior.

Pollution from single-use integrative remains a awesome problem, pinch a caller study uncovering that companies are producing grounds amounts contempt efforts to beryllium much sustainable. Plastic is problematic because it’s mostly made from polymers created from vulnerable fossil fuels.

Oceana, an defense group that has agelong criticized Amazon’s integrative use, said nan alteration was a “significant measurement forward,” but nan institution “needs to build connected this momentum and fulfill its multiyear committedness to modulation its North America fulfillment centers distant from plastic.”

“Then, nan institution should grow these efforts and besides push innovations for illustration reusable packaging to move distant from single-use packaging everyplace it sells and ships,” Matt Littlejohn, Oceana’s elder vp of Strategic Initiatives, said successful a statement.