Amazon Publicly Reports on Plastic Packaging Footprint for First Time
December 15, 2022
Amazon, the largest retailer in the world, publicly reported on the amount of plastic packaging it uses for the first time. This disclosure came in response to Oceana’s campaign and efforts to estimate the company’s plastic packaging footprint for the past three years. The packaging Amazon uses, particularly plastic film, is not readily recyclable and […]
Group casts doubt on Amazon’s claims of reducing plastic
Associated Press, December 15, 2022
Report: Amazon’s plastic packaging waste jumped 18% to 709 million pounds in 2021
December 15, 2022
Today, Oceana released a new report “The Cost of Amazon’s Plastic Denial on the World’s Oceans” revealing that Amazon, the largest retailer in the world, generated an estimated 709 million pounds of plastic packaging waste last year, stemming from billions of packages purchased through the company’s e-commerce website. This is an 18% increase over Oceana’s […]
Brazil’s Leading Food Delivery Service, iFood, Commits to Additional Single-Use Plastic Reductions
October 31, 2022
Brazil’s largest home food delivery service, iFood, committed to reduce additional single-use plastic packaging throughout its operations, expanding earlier reduction targets to include polystyrene foam containers, plastic sachets, and plastic bags. In total, the company plans to eliminate 2.7 billion single-use plastic items by 2025. These ubiquitous single-use plastic items often become pollution and can […]
Coke could help save oceans from plastic — by keeping its promise
Al Jazeera, October 31, 2022