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The retailing goliath built its own model to reduce packaging waste . Data from the company indicates it’s now helping to cut at least 500,000 tons of packaging a year.mazon ships 20 million packages a day in 19 countries, requiring an astronomical amount of paper, cardboard and plastic packaging. Figuring out how to pack all those items efficiently is good for the environment and for its own profits.launched its own proprietary AI model to reduce packaging waste .
Over time, the model has added more nuance in identifying specific items so that, for example, personal items like adult diapers won’t be shipped without packaging in order to save on materials, and products that have strong magnets get enough protection so that they don’t get stuck on conveyors. Fenton said that Amazon, which has $575 billion in sales, currently uses the AI model throughout North America and Europe, and is working to roll it out in India, Australia and Japan. She declined to give a date for when the international rollout would be complete, but noted that it would require the AI model to learn new languages and incorporate products specific to those markets.
found that plastic waste from Amazon that was dropped off at store bins rarely made it to recycling centers.would replace plastic packaging with recyclable paper and cardboard materials as part of a multiyear effort to wean its distribution network off plastics.
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