Plastic Pollution
Amazon, the online retailer, generated more than 300 million kilograms of plastic packaging waste last year, new research claims. In total, the online retail giant allegedly created 321 million kilograms of packaging waste - mostly in the form of air-pillows, a protective packaging used in parcels. If laid out, this waste could circle the earth more than 800 times.
Plastic can take 1,000 years to decompose, filling landfill and littering the ocean. Of the 10 billion tonnes of plastic that have ever been created, a massive 6 billion sits in landfill sites or in the natural environment.
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