Amazon used 11.6% less plastic for shipping last year and is phasing out those blue and white plastic mailers
; much of the rest piles up in landfills, is burned, or leaches into waterways.
"We will monitor Amazon's developments going forward to ensure the company continues to disclose a shrinking plastic packaging footprint," LittlejohnOceana for several years has tried to put numbers on how much plastic Amazon is using. The company has described those estimates as inaccurate and exaggerated. Oceana'sfound Amazon used about 709 million pounds of plastic packaging — some 355,000 tons.
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