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Amazon UK has announced that it will no longer use single-use plastic bags to package products . Amazon has changed orders shipped from its own fulfillment centers to recyclable paper bags and cardboard envelopes. This includes items sold by Amazon and third-party selling partners using Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) .

The packaging contains more recycled content, is easier to recycle in UK households and reduces cargo volume compared to shipping in corrugated boxes. And when the product is packaged in a single-use plastic bag provided by the manufacturer and the bag fits, Amazon delivers that package directly to the customer, which avoids adding unnecessary extra packaging.

Amazon has a huge presence in the UK market.

In 2021, it signed 18 new warehouse lease contracts, showing that its distribution network is still growing. However, Amazon has also faced a lot of criticism for the amount of packaging waste it generates.

Since 2015, the company has been making changes to reduce packaging waste. According to it, the packaging weight of each shipment has been reduced by 36%, reducing 1 million tons of packaging material.

What are the hazards of packaging waste?

For environmental pollution , glue is one of the components in the packaging bag, mostly polyvinyl chloride , and it will take nearly a hundred years to degrade, which has caused the focus of environmental pollution.

Harm to human beings , in order to reduce packaging costs, some merchants and delivery companies use packaging fillers made of inferior materials . For example, many express packaging plastic fillers are still used in large quantities from chemical waste. This kind of plastic bags generally contain toxic organic substances and bacteria and viruses. One can imagine the harm of sending them to us!

In the first half of 2021 , the European Patent Office announced the adoption of a new environmental policy aimed at addressing current environmental issues. On January 1, 2022, the European Union issued an announcement to levy a "plastic packaging tax" to restrict the use of plastic products.

Plastic Packaging Tax

A new tax on plastic packaging in the United Kingdom (UK) came into force in April 2022. It's a new tax by the UK government to crack down on the use of single-use plastics and encourage greater reliance on recycled plastics.

The duty will apply to plastic packaging components entering the UK (although there are certain exemptions) that do not contain at least 30% recycled plastic and are manufactured or imported in the UK.

Amazon's move to eliminate single-use plastics from its UK distribution network responds to global restrictions on plastic products and is part of Amazon's strategy to reduce carbon emissions . Amazon's new policy affects companies that manufacture or import certain plastic packaging materials for finished products. If the selected product packaging involves plastic products, the seller needs to replace it in time to avoid touching the policy and affecting transactions with the UK.