アマゾン：年20万トンのプラごみ排出：Oceana report（動画）：
Amazon: Over 200,000 tons of plastic waste annually: Oceana report：
亚马逊：Oceana报告称，每年排放的塑料废料超过20万吨
ー国際海洋保護団体のOceanaー
ネット通販のアマゾン：
アマゾンが、2019年に21万トン超のプラスチック製包装ごみを生み出した。
Oceanaが、「アマゾンが約1万トンが海や川に流れ込んだと推定した報告書」をまとめた。
アマゾン側は、内容は不正確だと反論している。
サステナビリティー：
報告書によると、アマゾンの配送物から出るプラごみの大半は、エアークッションや気泡シートなどの緩衝材が占めている。
オセアナの推定：
アマゾンは2019年だけで、約70億個の荷物を発送した。
使用したエアークッションをつなげると、地球を500回巻ける長さになるという。
オセアナは、アマゾンがグローバル事業を拡大していくなかで、プラスチック・フットプリントも増大する方向にあると指摘している。
Forbes JAPAN
https://forbesjapan.com/articles/detail/39036/1/1/1
Opting Out: Amazon shoppers would choose plastic-free packaging if they had a choice
If convenience is what you value most in a shopping experience, you’d be hard-pressed to find a better outlet than Amazon.
With millions of products, fresh groceries, and same-day delivery right to your doorstep,
it’s no wonder that Amazon has become the world’s largest online retailer, delivering 7 billion packages last year alone.
That is roughly one package for every person on the planet – but unfortunately, many of these deliveries come with a side of plastic.
According to a new Oceana report based on available industry data and the company’s market share by country,
Amazon generated an estimated 465 million pounds (211 million kilograms) of plastic packaging in 2019.
Imagine, for a moment, that all of that trash took the form of inflatable “air pillows,” which are increasingly replacing bubble wrap.
It would create a plastic trail long enough to circle the Earth 500 times.
The company disputes these and other figures but has not yet provided Oceana with alternative data or specific estimates – by country – detailing the plastic footprint generated by Amazon and its marketplace vendors.
In the meantime, Amazon customers
are left pondering, ‘What will happen to all of this plastic packaging left behind?’
Essentially none of those plastic bags, bubble-lined mailers, or air pillows are recycled – at least not in any practical sense.
Most curbside recycling programs don’t accept this kind of plastic and, worse yet, if it’s mistakenly placed in a recycling bin it could contaminate other types of plastic waste that otherwise would have been recycled.
Oceana