Advocates & organizers call on Amazon to cut back on plastic packaging

Today, Environment Washington Research & Policy Center Advocate Pam Clough joined WashPIRG student volunteers and Oceana canvassers outside Amazon headquarters in Seattle to call on the e-commerce company to reduce plastic packaging in its U.S. shipments.

Next week, Amazon will hold their annual meeting, in which shareholders will vote on a resolution that would require Amazon to develop a plan to reduce plastic waste.  In addition to raising awareness about this upcoming vote, we asked employees to pledge to vote “yes” on this resolution and delivered a petition to Amazon with 41,569 signatures, asking the company to reduce their use of plastic packaging in the U.S. shipments.

Amazon has already committed to stop using single-use plastic in shipments within Germany and India, and there are alternatives to single-use plastic film available now. It’s possible for Amazon to phase out single-use packaging now, and we urge the company to take stong action to make that happen.  

See our full release here.