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Big Basket ahead of e-commerce giants Amazon and Flipkart in eliminating single use plastics

E-commerce companies in India like Amazon, Flipkart and BigBasket are racing to eliminate single us…

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Amazon's plastic packaging was reportedly found thousands of miles away at illegal dump sites in India

Plastic packaging has been found to release noxious odors at waste sites and can emit toxic chemica…

Aaron Mok   


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Viral videos have terrified people into opposing Amazon's plastic packaging. Here's why they're wrong.

The inks and adhesives have to be recyclable in the same stream as the rest of the package, Goodric…

Rachel Premack   


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Amazon used enough plastic air packets in its boxes to circle the planet 800 times in 2021, an outside group found. The company said it used far less.

Amazon for the first time shared how much plastic packaging it used. The group Oceana estimated the…

Catherine Boudreau   


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Amazon created 599 million pounds of plastic packaging waste in 2020, 23.5 million pounds of which ended up in the world's oceans, watchdog report says

So much Amazon packaging ends up in the ocean, it's like "dumping a delivery van payload of plastic…

Ben Gilbert   


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More beauty brands are ditching plastic packaging — and consumers are buying in

From annual sustainability reports to going "zero-waste," smaller beauty brands see the value in su…

Korie Wilkins   


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Submit fresh report on compliance of plastic rules by Amazon, Flipkart: NGT to CPCB

New Delhi, Jan 29 () The NGT asked the Central Pollution Control Board on Wednesday to submit a fre…

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Amazon is trying to eliminate plastic that doesn't get recycled. It's actually making some progress.

Amazon is using a paper filler made from 100% recycled material instead, which customers can recycl…

Catherine Boudreau   


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Amazon used 11.6% less plastic for shipping last year and is phasing out those blue and white plastic mailers

Amazon used 11.6% less plastic last year for shipping and is phasing out those blue and white plast…

Catherine Boudreau   


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PhonePe joins Flipkart in the fight against plastic, bans single use plastic

Flipkart-owned PhonePe has banned single use plastic from all of its offices. It has over 40 office…

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India won’t be banning plastic — for now

India's ministry of environment has issued a notice telling states and UTs that there no nationwide…

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You've been thinking about plastics all wrong

The findings likely will surprise many. The study finds that the environmental cost of using altern…

Jeff Wooster, Dow Chemical   


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Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, and Mars accused of 'warping, reframing, or ignoring' environmental commitments in major sustainability report

Coca-Cola failed to meet many internal sustainability promises and opposed environmental laws, a re…

Grace Dean   


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Flipkart and Air India become the first in their sectors to begin the fight against plastic

As India moves to reduce its dependence on plastics, public and private corporations alike are join…

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By 2050, the oceans could have more plastic than fish

If we reused more plastic packaging, and turned it back into other plastic products, the report con…

Rebecca Harrington   


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By 2050, the oceans could have more plastic than fish

If we reused more plastic packaging, and turned it back into other plastic products, the report con…

Rebecca Harrington   


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Apple slashed the amount of plastic headed to the landfill by making 2 simple changes to iPhone packaging

Since Apple hired former EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson in 2013 to run its environmental progr…

Kif Leswing