FLORENCE – Tis the holiday season, and that typically means a lot more household trash and waste, especially plastic bags, wrap and film used for eCommerce. These items should not be placed in ...

Amazon is phasing out plastic from the envelopes, bags, boxes and cushioning it uses to ship items, swapping in paper-based ...

Amazon said it is in the process of replacing those clear plastic air pillows used to pad merchandise in shipping boxes in its effort to reduce single-use plastic. The company said it has already ...

California lawmakers are giving serious consideration to first-in-the-nation legislation that would force online retailers to reduce their single-use plastics packaging. A version of their plan passed ...

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Environmental activists have for years pressed Amazon to reduce the plastic used in shipping more than 20 million packages daily. Amazon's latest sustainability report shows that the company is ...

2:14 Kelowna high school students turn shipping container into a plastic recycling plant that reprocesses the material into useful products It is a unique plastic recycling plant, one that has been ...