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Amazon was founded in 1994 and started as a book-selling company. Then Amazon was launched on the 15th of July in 1995, and in 1997 amazon went public, 3 years later amazon launched the marketplace in 2000, and five years later Amazon Prime started, in 2007 kindles began to sell and the first Alexa came out in 2014.

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Almost 70% of Amazon employees said they have to take time off due to pain, exhaustion, and soreness.  The most common injuries while working are severe pain in the legs, sprains, and tears in muscles due to being on their feet for hours on end while some are paid minimum wage.

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Amazon has avoided using 2 million tons of packaging, and there were 71.54 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent last year. Amazon also accounted for 5 billion pounds of landfilled waste in the US alone. At the same time, 165 billion packages were shipped to the US, and all those packages used about 1 billion trees for all that cardboard. More than 300 warehouses are down in southern California, causing the air down there to become more polluted.

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Amazon can use more eco-friendly packaging that's not plastic or lessen the amount of plastic packaging they use. Amazon could lessen its carbon footprint by flying less. We can buy used products like Legos or many other things instead of buying them new. Amazon can make most of its trucks electric because it relies on fossil fuels. Amazon has started using less fuel by using a more fuel-efficient fleet of planes. Amazon recommends people buy in big orders to use less fuel.

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After I had researched I started to use more eco-friendly stuff and now buy things on Amazon in bigger groups to help lessen my carbon footprint and the amount of cardboard I use I have been thinking about things that I need and what I want because then I can use less packaging each year and I've changed but people rely on amazon so I don't think people will change in an amount of time anytime soon.

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Are you an Amazon employee? Walk out with us! Pledge here to join the walkout on May 31th.
In December 2018, a group of employees, who would eventually start Amazon Employees for Climate Justice, filed a shareholder resolution, asking Amazon to create a comprehensive, company-wide plan to reduce its fossil fuel dependency. Soon after, 8,700+ employees joined the movement, signing an open letter about the company's climate failures.
But Amazon is both failing these commitments and is not acknowledging the gaps in what they've even pledged to do.
Amazon responded, releasing its carbon footprint for the first time, and announcing its Shipment Zero program to reduce transportation emissions. Employees still planned to walk out over climate because these goals were not enough to meet the full challenge of the climate crisis.

The announcement of the planned walkout from Amazon workers, and the surrounding publicity, led to a historic moment. On the eve of the walkout, Jeff Bezos announced The Climate Pledge, pledging that Amazon will be net-carbon-zero by 2040. In February 2020, Jeff Bezos also announced the Bezos Earth Fund, pledging $10 billion of his personal wealth to address climate change.

Amazon is a company that stands by data-driven decisions, and having a good impact, not just good intent. However, Amazon's numbers and decisions on climate are shocking and unacceptable.

Amazon killed its Shipment Zero commitment

Recently, Amazon silently removed the first commitment it ever made on climate, and there's no guarantee they won't do this with other goals.

This is why the Climate Pledge must be evaluated on Amazon's actions rather than the goal itself. If Amazon hasn't shown us it is on track to meet the Climate Pledge, there's no way we can trust it.

Extrapolated from Amazon's carbon footprint reporting and the Climate Pledge's net-zero carbon by 2040 goal.

40% increase in emissions since 2019

Since announcing the Climate Pledge in 2019, Amazon's emissions have increased 40%. The emissions have grown at ~18% per annum as Amazon's business grows ~24% per annum and will continue to do so until strong measures to curtail it are put in place.

Those rising emissions are also disproportionately concentrated in communities of color.

As investigated by Consumer Reports, Amazon's warehouses are located primarily in communities of color, and these communities bear the brunt of the environmental impact of Amazon's emissions.

"Communities that host delivery facilities end up being the losers," says Sacoby Wilson, director of the Center for Community Engagement, Environmental Justice, and Health at the University of Maryland in College Park, who worked with CR to analyze the locations of Amazon facilities. "They get more traffic, air pollution, traffic jams, and pedestrian safety problems, but they don't receive their fair share of the benefits that accrue from having the retail nearby. You can treat this pattern as a form of environmental racism." - Consumer Reports, "When Amazon Expands, These Communities Pay the Price"

Amazon has failed to take these environmental injustices into account. It's deeply concerning that Amazon's decision to cancel its Shipment Zero goal could make this much worse, as major pollutants impacting these communities come from the large diesel trucks that make up Amazon's vast transportation network.

Amazon is underreporting emissions so that it only puts itself on the hook for 1% of its online sales

A recent investigation also found that Amazon is not even counting a vast majority of its emissions. In terms of reporting emissions of its manufacture and disposal of products from its retail business, Amazon only tallies carbon emissions for its own Amazon-branded products which make up about a mere 1% of its online sales.

"This is how Amazon washes its hands of the climate impact of most of the things it sells: It simply decides to play by different rules than its peers." - Will Evans, Reveal News, "Private Report Shows How Amazon Drastically Undercounts Its Carbon Footprint"

This means that even if Amazon met the Climate Pledge, it likely wouldn't be a true net-zero emissions company, because it refuses to take accountability for the numerous other ways it impacts our environment.

Amazon also only tracks its corporate shuttles' footprint - leading to 29% fewer carbon emissions from employee commutes as compared to Target, a much smaller company

Amazon reports 29% fewer carbon emissions from its employee commute as compared to Target which has a third of the employees as compared to Amazon. While this seems impressive at face-value, it yet again highlights under-reporting of carbon emissions from Amazon. For reporting employee commute, Amazon only counts its emissions from corporate shuttles - while its peers, such as Target, Walmart, and The Home Depot, estimate the gas their workers burn while traveling to and from work. In response to this lower employee commute reporting, Amazon's Davila told Reveal News that "Employees can use public transportation to get to the office, and if they live nearby, they can walk or bike."

Amazon shut down a bill requiring data centers to reach 100% clean energy by 2040

Amazon recently killed a bill in Oregon that would have required data centers to be held to the same clean energy standards as public utilities (80% clean energy by 2030 and 100% by 2040).

Amazon is planning on building new data centers this year in Oregon that will run on fracked natural gas. To provide this fracked natural gas, Amazon is building new pipelines to connect to the interstate GTN pipeline in order to skirt the GHG cap in Oregon's Climate Protection Program. This suggests that Amazon is planning to use these gas pipelines for an extended period.

In Oregon, Facebook and Apple voluntarily financed solar and wind projects to offset the emissions from their local data centers. Google reports Power Use Efficiency (PUE) metrics for all their data centers, including their two in Oregon, as an accountability device. But not Amazon. Amazon was rated by Wired Magazine as having the smallest renewable energy portfolio of the big 3 cloud computing platforms, and received an "F" grade for its almost complete lack of transparency with respect to its environmental footprint.

Achieving a zero carbon emissions business would start from accurately measuring and reporting carbon emissions, formulating and enforcing goals across business to reduce them, and funding initiatives to support those goals. The practices highlighted above are unequivocally at odds with an earnest commitment to the climate pledge. To earn employee trust, the company must reverse these obtrusive practices and invest in initiatives to achieve zero-carbon emissions by 2030.
Are you an Amazon employee? Walk out with us! Read more about us (Amazon Employees for Climate Justice) and or feel free to Google us! Sign up for our email list here (we try to stay off corp for security reasons). Pledge here to join the walkout on May 31th.
We know when Amazon listens to employees, it moves in the right direction. And we're here to get that back on track. That's why we're walking out again on May 31st.

The climate crisis is here now, and this is a real chance to stand together in solidarity to save every last slice of earth that we can. By joining this walkout, you'll join a group of Amazon employees who are pushing Amazon to do better on climate and intersecting issues, and together we can make change at our company. We can imagine a world where Amazon's innovation is directed towards the energy revolution, not just looking good on paper, and that world can only get built by workers who are ready to make change.

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Amazon is failing its own Climate Pledge

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All Production, Import, Export and Net Consumption numbers are in Million Metric Tons (1,000,000,000 Kg.) Please provide if you have the latest info. If you want to write a Blog please send me at wecare@paperonweb.com and I will review it and publish

Paper & Paperboard Recovery (Source ISRI )

Recovered fiber, also known as recovered paper and board, is one of the most widely recycled materials in the world. Since 1990, Americans have recycled nearly 1.1 billion tons of recovered fiber as the recovery rate for paper and paperboard in the United States increased by 30 percent to reach 65.4 percent in 2014. The paper recycling segment of the scrap recycling industry collects, sorts, and processes the recovered fiber into specification grade products that were valued at $7.8 billion in 2014. These products are sold and transported to paper mills at home and worldwide for production into new packaging, office paper, tissue, newsprint, and a multitude of other paper products.

In the United States, approximately 76 percent of paper mills rely on recovered fiber to make some or all of their products due in part to recovered paper's significant cost and energy savings. In addition, the paper and fiber recovered in the United States helps to meet growing overseas demand: recovered paper was exported to more than 85 different countries last year at a value of approximately $3.2 billion, not including the tremendous environmental benefits and energy savings, while significantly helping our balance of trade.

The US recovered 52.0 Million Ton of paper in 2015 and this accounts for 66.8% of paper consumed in US. It is approximately 315 lbs per person in US.

Source Paperrecycle.org

21.2 million tons of recovered paper was exported to 85 countries including Canada, China, India, South Korea and Mexico in 2014:

* 2.4 million tons of printed news * 9.7 million tons of corrugated cardboard * 4.6 million tons of mixed paper * 0.8 million tons of high-grade paper * 2.3 million tons of other mechanical paper * 1.2 million tons of pulp substitutes.

91% of corrugated container and 70% of newspapers consumed were recovered in 2012.

About 36% of the fiber used to make paper products comes from recycled paper.

000 tons %

Corrugated Recovery Hits 91 Percent,

WASHINGTON, D.C. (June 6, 2013) In 2012, 91 percent (29 million tons) of the corrugated packaging used in the U.S. was successfully recovered for recycling, maintaining its top position as the most-recycled packaging material.

Recovery for recycling has increased steadily since 1993

Maintains Top Position As Most-Recycled Packaging Material
, when 54.5 percent of old corrugated containers (OCC) was recycled. Recovery is also helped by the widespread access to community paper and paper-based packaging recycling programs. According to the American Forest & Paper Association's Community Survey, 87 percent (268 million) of the U.S. population have access to curb side or drop-off recycling programs.
Most OCC is used to make new paper products.
Of the 91 percent of corrugated that was recovered in 2012, more than 50 percent was used to make new containerboard. An additional 12 percent was used to make recycled paperboard and more than 34 percent was exported.
Where OCC Goes

Containerboard 14,588 50.1

Recycled Paperboard 3,510 12.0

Total 29,134 100

Source: AF&PA

Making strides in newspaper recycling

In the past two decades, NAA's member newspapers have voluntarily committed to using recycled-content newsprint. Consider these facts:

In 1989, 35 percent of all old newspapers were recycled. Today, more than 72 percent of all old newspapers in the United States are recovered and recycled. That exemplary recovery rate dramatically helps reduce the impact on forests, dependency on imported oil and the need for more landfills.

The average amount of recycled-fiber content in newsprint used by U.S. newspapers has increased from 10 percent in 1989 to almost 30 percent today.

A typical newspaper can be recycled up to seven times. Because the de-inking process can wear out the material, there is a limit to how many times recovered fibers can be recycled.

Not only are old newspapers used to produce recycled newsprint, they also are recycled into other products: cellulose insulation materials, cereal boxes, egg cartons, grocery bags, pencil barrels, tissue paper and more. In many cases, manufacturing of these products is more economical and environmentally friendly than shipping old newspapers to distant mills for recycling.

While newspapers continue to demand recycled-content newsprint, the overall supply of newsprint has declined. Over the last decade, some recycled-content newsprint mills have closed while others have shifted from producing newsprint to producing higher grades of paper. Newsprint manufacturers also have a harder time obtaining quality recovered fiber because of increased demand for fiber from export markets.

Making a difference in newspaper production

While all newspapers must comply with Environmental Protection Agency regulations, newspapers represented by NAA have made substantial investments to improve operational efficiency and to reduce their impact on the environment:

Since the late 1980s, newspapers have been using soy-based color ink and water-based inks that emit less volatile organic compounds. The EPA considers VOCs to be a contributor to air pollution because they lead to the formation of ozone in the atmosphere - a component of smog.

A number of newspapers have converted from 48-inch to 46-, 44- or 42-inch web widths to reduce the amount of newsprint consumed.

Newspapers are using lighter-weight newsprint, which also reduces consumption.

Newspapers are moving from wooden pallets to plastic, reusable skids.

Packaging & Industrial 484 1.7

Tissue 224 0.9

Newsprint 0 0

Other 251 0.9

Net Exports 10,007 34.6

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