Question

do amazon take precautions to reduce waste or avoid increasing their carbon footprint? Do they consider pollution in their supply chain? does Amazon's operation just benefit them or does it benefit their customers?

Answer 1

Increase in online shopping is a major reason that affects the sustainability of the environment, not only in packaging, but also in terms of carbon emmitted out by the transport vehicles.

Amazon has recently stated in its website that its carbon footprint rose 15% last year.

The increase on carbon footprint shows how big difficult it is for a rapidly growing company like Amazon to cut down on pollution. But we cannot say that Amazon is not taking any precautions in reducing waste and carbon footprint as Amazon has recently stated that it has launched a Amazon Climate Pledge Fund which will look forward for making additional major investment in the coming years that will result in long term payoffs.

They have committed to the Climate Pledge, they has invested in a range of large scale solution to decarbonise their business.

Yes we can say that they consider pollution in their supply chain as they have stated in report that they have seen improvement in the carbon intensity of their business in 2019 as a result of operational efficiencies such as energy efficiency technology in fulfillment centers and alternative vehicle pilots.

The operation of Amazon benefits them as well as their customer as customer can enjoy privileged service delivery by becoming member of Amazon prime.