Amazon by Paul Gifford

The Years of Amazon Over Time

pg52901 — 2024-04-17 13:28:20 UTC

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.

The Effects of an Amazon Job

pg52901 — 2024-04-17 13:29:23 UTC

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.

How Amazon Affects the Environment

pg52901 — 2024-04-19 13:16:12 UTC

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.

Solutions For Amazon

pg52901 — 2024-04-19 13:25:49 UTC

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.

Will People Change

pg52901 — 2024-04-22 19:48:41 UTC

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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