Inside Amazon's Innovation Lab in Sumner, the company is rethinking everything about its packaging to make it smaller, ...

Over the years, Amazon has reduced the weight of its packaging by 33% and eliminated more than 880,000 tons of packaging material, which is equivalent to about 1.5 billion shipping boxes, Houchens ...

If you want a toaster or a television set, they will come in a manufacturer’s box without a new Amazon box wrapped around it. ... That has happened to many of us and often seems quite wasteful.

Amazon officials told ABC15 that some Amazon facilities also have boxing machines that create custom-sized boxes for items being shipped. They hope to add the machines to GYR1 in the near future ...

Recent news that Amazon is working on a way to deliver items inside your door, without packaging, is huge. It means that e-commerce might overcome its greatest obstacle: Thinking inside the box.

With Amazon's packages come waste: cardboard boxes, air pillows, flexible bubble mailers, tape, labels, Styrofoam and more. Finley: Hoekstra says '51st state' won't derail trade talks.

Two days later, a box big enough to hold a DVD player lands on our doorstep carrying two tiny packages of 24 flossers, the pair wrapped tightly together in more Amazon plastic.

A strict new law in Germany requires that manufacturers report how much packaging waste they generate. JD.com — the Amazon of China — is shooting for 100% recyclable or reusable packaging by 2020.

Using the matrix to reduce packaging waste led Amazon to save shipping 305 million boxes in 2017 alone. Of course, all of this is mostly an invisible process to the consumer.

It's happened to us all. You order a small item on Amazon only for the seller to send it out in a box that's unnecessarily huge. In a bid to finally stamp out the practice, the online shopping ...