Amazon wants to stop using single-use plastics for its outer packaging in Germany by the end of 2021. However, the company is not doing away with plastic altogether.
According to the company, plastic packaging is to be phased out in the logistics centres in Germany. For shipping, the aim is then to on flexible paper envelopes switch. Larger items or consignments will continue to be sent in corrugated cardboard boxes.
However, the mail order company is not completely abandoning single-use plastics. For example, it will continue to use plastic for sensitive or fragile products. Filling material made of plastic, for example bubble wrap, can be used.
Amazon Germany also announced, more products in the original packaging to be shipped. If retailers deliver their products to the German logistics centres already packaged in plastic, they will not be repackaged here but sent on in their original packaging. The aim is to reduce the need for secondary and tertiary packaging material.
The company also wants to better adapt the size of its packaging to the respective product in order to reduce material consumption here too. With the Frustration Free Packaging (FFP) programme launched in 2019, the mail order company is responding to consumer demands for less packaging waste.
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