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Amazon’s plastic waste soars by a third amid pandemic, report finds
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Amazon’s plastic packaging waste soared by almost a third, to 270,000 tonnes, during the pandemic last year, according to a report from marine conservation group Oceana.
Oceana estimates up to 10,700 tonnes of this plastic, including air pillows, bubble wrap and plastic-lined paper envelopes, equivalent to a delivery van’s worth every 67 minutes, is likely to end up in the sea.
Amazon, the western world’s largest retailer, rejected Oceana’s figures and said it had overestimated the plastic waste
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