Amazon is delivering nearly two-thirds of its own packages

Re:Amazon is delivering nearly two-thirds of its own packages by alexpetralia on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @04:14PM (#24275586)

I am constantly baffled by just how much cardboard is being used. I would be very curious to read about its environmental impact.

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Re:Amazon is delivering nearly two-thirds of its own packages by rolleiflex on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @04:18PM (#24275630)

Cardboard, per a story that was on HN a few weeks ago, is both almost entirely recyclable and has economic value. So the problem with cardboard isn’t even that it’s wasted, but that it’s being stolen from trash bins for recycling.

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-53724620

It’s one of the reminders that the invisible hand of economics, incentivised properly, can solve not all, but a surprising lot.

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