(Newswire.net — November 25, 2020) — Sustainable packaging is a move that is geared towards eco-friendliness and the reduction of environmental pollution, and several businesses are getting on board the trend. Amazon is one such business that is positively drawn towards sustainable packaging. If you make purchases from amazon and wonder how to go about getting sustainable packages from them, here’s how to do so.
First, head to your Amazon Prime account and click open. Next, select the ‘help/customer service’ icon and click on it. Go to ‘Contact Us’ and click on the ‘Chat’ option. Once the dialogue box opens, you can then go ahead and request a sustainable package. You could let them know that going forward, you would like for them to make all future orders plastic-free, with only biodegradable packaging materials to be used as much as possible and very minimal packaging where necessary. Once you have done this, the information will be saved to your account for all your future orders.
Another awesome way you can get sustainable packaging from Amazon is the ‘no rush’ option.
This translates to your request to be joined with other orders going to the same location as yours. So, rather than have the distribution truck making 5 different trips for different packages, it can simply take a single outing to deliver 5 packages! This impacts the volume of carbon footprint emitted.
Picking the ‘no rush’ route on your amazon prime account also translates that your deliveries will arrive in a perfectly sized box, with almost little or no plastics. You might be concerned about ending up with a damaged delivery, which is perfectly normal. But be sure that amazon has also put that into consideration and relies heavily on customer feedback to improve their packaging and make necessary adjustments. They even go as far as restricting an item from sale until a packaging change is made when needed.
The truth is at the end of the day, online shopping has come to stay, but we can always make our shopping experience much better for ourselves and for our ecosystem. With over 300 million active accounts and around 10 million package deliveries daily, you can only imagine the number of cardboard boxes and bubble wrappings that go out there daily. Amazon is one of the major and most convenient online retail shops that can make a significant difference in terms of sustainable packaging and eco-friendly actions.