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Amazon Struggles With Plastic Packaging Pollution

Amazon is trying to reduce its plastic pollution, but in 2021, the retailer's plastic mailers, shrinkwrap, bags and bubblewrap totaled 709 million pounds, an 18% increase from 2020. That's according to Oceana, now in its third year of crunching Amazon's packaging data. "Measured in terms of air pillows, this is enough plastic to circle the planet more than 800 times," per Sourcing Journal.

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