All Amazon articles
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Amazon boxes removed from one in two European deliveries
One in two of Amazon’s European shipments are delivered without box packaging through its reduction programme, the company reports, with over 50% said to come in reduced, recyclable delivery packaging like paper bags and cardboard envelopes, or no added packaging at all.
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How Amazon is making its packaging more efficient
Earlier this year, Amazon announced the rollout of an innovative scheme that it hopes can help to reduce unnecessary packaging – an issue for which it has frequently been criticised in the past. The ‘Ships in Product Packaging’ programme tests packages to see if they can be shipped in their original manufacturer’s packaging, eliminating the need for extra cardboard boxes or paper bags from Amazon. Products that pass this text are eligible for discounts on the fulfilment fee that Amazon charges its partners. To learn more about this project, we caught up with Kayla Fenton, Ships in Product Packaging Programme Global Lead at Amazon.
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Navigating the connected packaging landscape with Güneri Tugcu and Jenny Stanley
Güneri Tugcu, senior partner manager, Transparency at Amazon, and Jenny Stanley, managing director at Appetite Creative, sit down with Packaging Europe to discuss the connected packaging industry – its continual evolution, current roadblocks, how it might move forward, and who is responsible for driving change.
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Eco-conscious SMEs cut down on delivery packaging in collaboration with Amazon
Amazon sellers Mum & You, The Cheeky Panda, and BUSHBABY are amongst a host of SMEs certified to deliver items in their original packaging, negating the need for extra packaging during delivery.
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Amazon right-sizes delivery packaging with automated paper bag machines
Amazon is trialling automated packaging machines for on-demand, made-to-measure paper bags that seek to cut down on pack volume and weight – thus reducing carbon emissions during delivery.
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Amazon’s checkout-free shopping solution incorporates RFID technology for clothing purchases
Amazon and Avery Dennison have expanded the checkout-free, computer vision shopping solution Just Walk Out with RFID technology to enable its application to softlines like clothing and sports merchandise.
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A deeper dive into Amazon’s pursuit of sustainable packaging
Amazon has revealed further insights into its sustainability strategy for its packaging, including designing for kerbside recycling, machine learning algorithms for right-sizing purposes, and its Ship in Own Container programme hoped to eliminate unnecessary packaging.
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Exclusive: Amazon responds to the EU’s Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive revisions
In an exclusive statement to Packaging Europe, Amazon has spoken of its desire to eliminate unnecessary packaging, rightsize and lightweight the remainder, and reduce both waste and carbon emissions.
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How committed is Amazon to sustainable packaging progress?
E-commerce giant Amazon has taken a recent interest in eco-friendly packaging, particularly in its usage of paper and cardboard. Even so, the company is no stranger to criticism for its environmental practices. With the catastrophic impacts of climate change leading to conversations about corporate greenwashing, Emma Liggins asks if Amazon is doing enough to make its packaging sustainable.
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Amazon Germany to reduce SUP in outer packaging
Amazon is aiming to stop using single-use plastics (SUP) for its outer packaging by the end of 2021 in Germany.
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Answering the big questions in packaging sustainability
This week at the Sustainable Packaging Summit we will be bringing you five sessions - from interactive Zoom discussions with global thought-leaders to live debates with experts from across the value chain.
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This week at the Sustainable Packaging Summit: E-commerce and renewables
We are bringing you two Sustainable Packaging Summit discussions this week, where we will be joined by experts from every link of the packaging value chain.
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Podcast: E-commerce and optimum packaging design
As COVID-19 further channels consumer behaviour into online shopping, Libby Munford chats to leading expert, Brent Lindberg, founder of Fuseneo.
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Amazon: Addressing the challenges of e-commerce
In this column, Kim Houchens, director of customer packaging experience at Amazon shares how the company continues to address the specific challenges of e-commerce.
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On the Need for a Fundamental E-Think
Smurfit Kappa’s Gérard van den Boogaard discusses the mind-boggling array of variables presented by e-commerce, overturning almost all of the suppositions that have served logistics and tertiary packaging well until now.
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Sustainability Awards 2019 seeks the best packaging innovation (video)
The most important global competition promoting sustainable packaging innovation is open for submissions. A short introduction to the biggest Sustainability Awards to date.
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What Does 2019 Mean for Food & Bev?
Our writers share their predictions for the trends that will define the coming year in food and drink packaging.
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Prep-Free, Leak-Free
Rieke made a significant statement for the e-commerce channel in Q4 2018 with the launch of a new portfolio of non-leak trigger and pump dispenser solutions. Tim Sykes visited the company’s Leicester, UK, R&D centre to find out what is driving Rieke.
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Packaging Connections Black Friday 23/11/2018
As Black Friday merges into Cyber Monday we focus on Amazon's and Procter and Gamble's Tide brand's efforts to optimise packaging functionality and minimise waste for the e-commerce channel
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Turning the Tide: The Eco-Box eCommerce Rethink
P&G has introduced a new bag-in-box for North American e-commerce channels to ship Liquid Tide laundry detergent with greatly increased efficiency. Tim Sykes spoke to some of the creators of the new format.