John,

When you order something on Amazon, you shouldn't have to order handfuls of single-use plastic along with it.

Amazon makes millions of deliveries every single day.1 And all too often, those items are delivered in plastic bags and envelopes, which immediately go straight into the trash.

From your trash can, there's no telling where those flimsy sheets of plastic will go -- or how long they'll linger in our environment, polluting our planet for years after they've served their purpose.

Take action: Before Amazon's shareholder meeting on May 21, send your message saying it's time to ditch plastic packaging.

The scope of our waste problem is becoming difficult to imagine. In the last six years alone, our global economy consumed the same amount of resources as it did in the entire 20th century.2

Too often, all that stuff turns into waste that piles up in our environment, clogs our waterways and threatens our planet's wildlife. Even more outrageous, it's often stuff we don't need in the first place.

The plastic packaging that tags along with your Amazon order is the perfect example. One of the simplest ways we can put a dent in our waste problem is by eliminating the plastic we don't need -- like replacing that single-use plastic packaging with more sustainable alternatives.

Tell Amazon: Protect our planet. Commit to cut down on plastic packaging.

The good news? Corporate advocacy like this works.

Last summer, Amazon announced it would be phasing out plastic "air pillows" by the end of last year, in favor of more sustainable paper alternatives. The company estimates that action alone will avoid 15 billion air pillows from being used every year.3

That victory came after years of advocacy from organizations like ours -- along with thousands of petition signatures from people like you.4

But Amazon still has a long way to go if it's going to match the scale of our plastic pollution problem, and it can start by making a commitment to phase out all of its single-use plastic packaging.

Use your voice to advocate for a cleaner planet. Urge Amazon to make a bolder plastic waste commitment before their upcoming shareholder meeting on May 21.

Thank you for taking action,

Ellen Montgomery

1. "Amazon Logistics Statistics," Capital One Shopping Research, October 8, 2024.
2. "2023 Sustainability Report," Amazon, last accessed March 28, 2025.
3. "Amazon announces its largest reduction in plastic packaging in North America to date," Amazon, June 20, 2024.
4. Jenn Engstrom and Celeste Meiffren-Swango, "Amazon just took another big step toward reducing its plastic waste. But the job's not done.," U.S. PIRG, June 20, 2024.