Designing packaging for Amazon starts with the customer and works backwards so we can deliver products they’ll love.

We are collaborating with others to reduce packaging waste for our customers and the planet. Since 2015, we have decreased our average per-shipment packaging weight by 43%, which represents more than 3 million metric tons of packaging materials avoided.
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How Amazon is improving packaging and boosting sustainability

Across the globe, we continue to find ways to reduce our packaging, while making the materials we use easier to recycle. Here’s a look at our progress so far.

Packaging resources for vendors
Amazon partners with brands around the world to reduce brand-supplied packaging and the need for Amazon to add additional protective packaging.