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Amazon says its plastic packaging can be recycled. An investigation finds it usually isn't. | Grist (grist.org)
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[-] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 months ago

I can't see it being cheaper, since those packages aren't free. Faster? Not sure about that, either. Amazon automates a lot of their process, and the separate items would still need to gather in one place to be shipped together anyway. Packing a half dozen separate items is surely less efficient than packing everything in one box.

Again, this wasn't a problem a few years ago, when everything would come in a single box. The greenwashing by Amazon about their plastic bags is 10 steps backwards, IMO.

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