{"id":824749,"date":"2024-06-21T11:27:53","date_gmt":"2024-06-21T05:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=824749"},"modified":"2024-06-21T11:44:34","modified_gmt":"2024-06-21T06:14:34","slug":"so-long-plastic-air-pillows-amazon-shifting-to-recycled-paper-filling-for-packages-in-north-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/06\/21\/so-long-plastic-air-pillows-amazon-shifting-to-recycled-paper-filling-for-packages-in-north-america\/","title":{"rendered":"So long plastic air pillows: Amazon shifting to recycled paper filling for packages in North America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon is shifting from the plastic air pillows used for packaging in North America to recycled paper because it&#8217;s more environmentally sound, and it says paper just works better.<\/p>\n<p>The company said Thursday that it&#8217;s already replaced 95% of the plastic air pillows with paper filler in North America and is working toward complete removal by year&#8217;s end.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to ensure that customers receive their items undamaged, while using as little packaging as possible to avoid waste, and prioritizing recyclable materials,\u201d Amazon said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon is shifting from the plastic air pillows used for packaging in North America to recycled paper because it&#8217;s more environmentally sound, and it says paper just works better. The company said Thursday that it&#8217;s already replaced 95% of the plastic air pillows with paper filler in North America and is working toward complete removal by year&#8217;s end. \u201cWe want to ensure that customers receive their items undamaged, while using as little packaging as possible to avoid waste, and prioritizing recyclable materials,\u201d Amazon said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-824749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=824749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}