Ecommerce Industry

• Amazon’s new paper-padded envelopes replace bubble-wrap, offering recyclable, plastic-free protection.
• Packaging is lightweight, saving 44g per shipment on average, while maximizing delivery protection.
• Amazon’s sustainable push aims to achieve net-zero carbon operations by 2040, reducing packaging waste by 43% since 2015.

“Amazon stopped using traditional bubble-wrap padded envelopes in Europe several years ago, which presented a challenge to develop light, flexible, and fully recyclable paper packaging that provides the same protection,” said

Peggy Johnson, the CEO of Agility Robotics, spoke with journalist Bob Safian on the Rapid Response podcast about the future of humanoid robots. She talked about Digit, a human-like robot made to help in warehouses and other places where it’s hard to find people to do boring or repetitive work. These robots don’t replace jobs—they help people do more and move into better, more digital roles, like managing robot systems.

The new V-OVS next closure system is set to incorporate ‘several unique technical advances’ with customer feedback and shifting market needs in mind. Like its predecessors, it is designed to secure and protect the integrity of injectable products; yet it will also allow consumers to integrate ‘gold-standard’ Luer Lock features with ‘even easier’ handling characteristics and an ‘even more intuitive’ opening mechanism.

A survey commissioned by Amazon has found that seven out of 10 Indians wouldn’t mind if the product they order online comes without additional packaging.

The findings are released as more and more essential items -- such as toilet rolls and pallets of beverage drinks -- are being delivered to Indian shoppers without additional product packaging from Amazon.

The e-commerce giant said it is ‘constantly inventing and thinking big to make our packaging small’, and wants to use as little packaging as possible to’ avoid waste, and prioritizing recyclable materials’.

This is part of Amazon’s path to avoid and reduce packaging, a multi-year effort to remove plastic delivery packaging from North America fulfillment centres.

It will avoid nearly 15 billion plastic air pillows annually.

Movopack, a company providing eCommerce platforms with circular and sustainable packaging, has raised £2 million seed funding to launch in the UK via a partnership with Royal Mail.

The company’s first expansion outside of Italy aims to help tackle a growing packaging waste crisis, where an estimated 1.7 billion pieces of plastic are discarded weekly.