The project seeks to repurpose by-products such as wheat straw and sugarcane residue into paper mailers.

Amazon partners IIT Roorkee to turn crop waste into green packaging, cutting stubble burning and reducing virgin wood pulp ...

Grist is a nonprofit, independent media organization dedicated to telling stories of climate solutions and a just future. Feeling guilty about all those blue-and-white plastic Amazon bags piling up ...

Research collaboration develops strong, durable paper mailers from agricultural waste to reduce reliance on virgin wood pulp ...

Amazon claims four guiding principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence and long-term thinking. Through the company’s focus ...

Say goodbye to the guilt generated by those plastic air pillows stuffed into your Amazon purchase — the company announced earlier this month it's ceasing use of the eco-unfriendly packaging material. ...

Todd Grasser, an Amazon process assistant, using an automated device to package items in paper bags for shipping at a facility in Sumner, Wash. (GeekWire Photo / Lisa Stiffler) SUMNER, Wash. — At ...

Amazon is using AI to cut the amount of packaging materials it uses. Amazon ships 20 million packages a day in 19 countries, requiring an astronomical amount of paper, cardboard and plastic packaging.

Amazon announced Thursday that North American deliveries will ditch its air pillow packaging in favor of recycled paper filler, the latest move in the shipping company’s sustainability push. The ...