{"id":86,"date":"2013-12-06T17:18:17","date_gmt":"2013-12-06T17:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2bgreener.com\/?p=86"},"modified":"2014-01-15T00:06:01","modified_gmt":"2014-01-15T00:06:01","slug":"wahoo-easy-peasy-packaging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2bgreener.com\/?p=86","title":{"rendered":"Wahoo &#8211; easy-peasy packaging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>December 6, 2013<\/p>\n<p><strong>Amazon Sustainable Packaging Initiative Alleviates \u2018Wrap Rage\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/2bgreener.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/image001.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-87\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/2bgreener.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/image001.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"image001-jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-87\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Amazon says it\u2019s winning the battle against plastic clamshell cases and wire ties \u2014 part of the company\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/b\/?&amp;node=5521637011\">\u201cFrustration-Free\u201d<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.environmentalleader.com\/category\/sustainable-packaging-and-paper\/\"> sustainable packaging<\/a> initiative.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative, which began five years ago with 19 products, now has more than 200,000 in easy-to-open, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.environmentalleader.com\/category\/recycling\/\">recyclable<\/a> packaging designed to alleviate \u201cwrap rage,\u201d the company says. Amazon works with more than 2,000 manufacturers including Fisher-Price, Mattel, Unilever, Seventh Generation, Belkin, Victorinox Swiss Army, Logitech to deliver products inside smaller, recyclable cardboard boxes that reduce the overall amount of packaging used while still protecting what\u2019s inside.<\/p>\n<p>To date, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.environmentalleader.com\/tag\/amazon\/\">Amazon<\/a> has shipped more than 75 million Frustration-Free items to 175 countries. The company says Frustration-Free Packaging has:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Eliminated 58.9 million square feet of cardboard.<\/li>\n<li>Removed 24.7 million pounds of packaging.<\/li>\n<li>Reduced box sizes by 14.5 million cubic feet.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Last year <a href=\"http:\/\/www.environmentalleader.com\/2012\/09\/27\/amazon-launches-shopping-site-for-green-products\/\"> Amazon launched Vine.com<\/a>, a shopping site that sells only green products, including organic food, apparel, accessories and cleaning supplies made by companies such as Seventh Generation, Method, Brita and Burt\u2019s Bees. Vine reviews claims of vendors to verify products are either organic, natural, energy- or water-efficient, run on their own renewable energy, made from sustainable materials or contribute to a healthier home, according to the company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 6, 2013 Amazon Sustainable Packaging Initiative Alleviates \u2018Wrap Rage\u2019 Amazon says it\u2019s winning the battle against plastic clamshell cases and wire ties \u2014 part [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-products"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p40KlT-1o","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":532,"url":"https:\/\/2bgreener.com\/?p=532","url_meta":{"origin":86,"position":0},"title":"The Easter bunny, edible spoons, and mushroom materials.","author":"greenerjsa","date":"March 27, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"My son and I colored Easter eggs yesterday, finally using a natural method to do so instead of buying the infamous PAAS kits for coloring, marbling, tie-dying or what have you. 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