John,

In the United States, enough plastic waste is generated to fill the Dallas Cowboys' stadium to the brim every 16 hours.1

And this time of year, the mountain of wasteful plastic packaging from online holiday shopping is all the more evident.

Add your name to our petition: Amazon can help by eliminating plastic packaging from the millions of items that the company delivers each day.

Thank you for taking action,

Faye Park
President

1. "Beyond Plastic," PIRG, last accessed November 29, 2024.

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From: U.S. PIRG <[email protected]>
Date: Monday, December 2, 2024
Subject: Tell Amazon: Eliminate plastic packaging
To: John xxxxxx <[email protected]>

John,

Amazon makes more than 16 million deliveries every day. That's roughly one order for every 8 American households.

During the holiday sales season, that number could be even higher.1

Worse, many of those items will come packaged in plastic that can't be recycled, generating mountains and mountains of waste that pollute oceans, landfills or even the gutters in our neighborhood.

Tell Amazon: We don't want waste arriving on our doorsteps this holiday season. Eliminate wasteful, single-use packaging.

Shopping plastic-free can seem impossible even for conscientious consumers when so much stuff comes wrapped in plastic. You see the waste pile up in your trashcan, and it's frustrating.

Amazon is a retail giant with the power to keep tons of plastic out of landfills by choosing to use sustainable, non-plastic packaging. Help reduce plastic waste by sending a message to Amazon today.

PIRG raised the red flag on Amazon in 2023 when a group of volunteers tracked the journeys of Amazon packaging, and discovered that -- despite being labeled as recyclable -- none of the plastic ended up in locations that guaranteed the packaging would actually be recycled.2

138,000 people like you signed petitions to the company, urging it to reduce single-use plastic in its shipments.

And then? Amazon committed to phasing out padded plastic shipping envelopes in favor of recyclable alternatives, and removed plastic air pillows from virtually all North American deliveries.3

But, Amazon's announcement didn't include a deadline for when it will phase out its padded plastic shipping envelopes, nor a commitment to eliminate all single-use plastic in its shipments.

Amazon can and should do better. That means keeping the company's feet to the fire. Tell Amazon: Eliminate plastic packaging from shipments.

Thank you,

Faye Park
President

1. "Amazon Logistics Statistics," Capital One, October 8, 2024.
2. Jenn Engstrom and Celeste Meiffren-Swango, "Truth in recycling," U.S. PIRG, March 19, 2024.
3. Jenn Engstrom, "Statement: Amazon to phase out single-use plastic shipping bags," PIRG, July 19, 2023.

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