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On 24 June 2024 Ethical Consumer viewed the website of Amazon.com Inc for details of what it was doing to reduce packaging, especially plastic packaging which appeared to be used in its Amazon Fresh range. Its sustainability report and various packaging related webpages were viewed.

The company had reduced the amount of packaging in its products shipped to consumers, and the company had quantified this: "Since 2015, we’ve reduced per-shipment packaging weight by 41% on average, avoiding more than 2 million tons of packaging". Iit discussed how it was shipping packages in its suppliers original packaging as opposed to creating new Amazon-branded packaging, working with suppliers to ensure the packaging was suitable so that Amazon did not need to provide additional protective packaging, but had not quantified this. (10 points).

No evidence could be found that the company had reduced packaging in its supply chain. (0 points)

The company was not found to have taken any other significant steps to reduce the packaging of its products. (0 points)

No significant and reputable third party criticisms were found.

Final scores are capped at either 0 or 100. Overall, Amazon.com Inc scored 10/100 for Packaging.