Sign this petition re: Amazon packaging

Paper-and-Bubble Wrap envelopes are not easily recycled and end up in landfills. Use all paper envelopes to save the environment, please.

Dear fellow MoveOn member,

Amazon is one of the largest companies in the world, and its whole business is built on e-commerce. That means nearly everything they sell is packaged and shipped to people. Do you know where millions of packages, Bubble Wrap, tape, and more end up? Landfills and waste dumps.

Climate change is threatening this generation and many to come, and corporations must minimize waste and their carbon footprint on the environment. Much of the plastic and cardboard packaging that Amazon uses to sustain their business doesn't get reused and ends up in landfills. Even when it is recycled, the materials Amazon uses aren't sortable and end up getting caught in machinery. Remember that big, bubble-lined envelope they used to ship you something as small as a tube of Chap Stick? That package is likely in a landfill right now.
 
Amazon needs to switch to paper envelopes/packaging to minimize their carbon footprint. 

Sign this petition demanding that Amazon switch their packaging to paper instead of plastic and cardboard.

Paper-and-Bubble Wrap envelopes are not easily recycled and end up in landfills. Use all-paper envelopes to save the environment, please.

According to The Washington Post, "The problem with the plastic mailers is twofold: They need to be recycled separately, and if they end up in the usual stream, they gum up recycling systems and prevent larger bundles of materials from being recycled. Environmental advocates say Amazon, as the industry giant, needs to do a much better job of encouraging consumers to recycle the plastic mailers by providing more education and alternative places to bring that plastic for recycling."¹

Amazon has an opportunity to set the standard for environmentally friendly packaging. They are one of the the biggest corporations in the world, and if they take the importance of being conscious of their carbon footprint seriously, they will influence other e-commerce businesses to follow suit. We demand that they use paper envelopes to minimize their impact on climate change and environmental damage immediately!

Click here to add your name to this petition, and then pass it along to your friends.

Thanks!

—Molly Larkin

Source: 

1. "Why Amazon's new streamlined packaging is jamming up recycling centers," The Washington Post, February 11, 2019. 
https://act.moveon.org/go/67045?t=10&akid=236433%2E10220574%2EgfLiP-

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