sustainability report"

Bezos doesn't give a shit about his customers, the cities they live in, or the planet they live on

At our expense, of course.

but Amazon, you've done it.

To me, they behave as predators do.

It seems obvious to me that they’re not recyclable.

As do the taxpayers.

In the Chicago area, there is a drop off location a few miles from me where certain types of plastic are taken and recycled into "plastic lumber" products.

to store some of my things in.

And if you sell things, you could use it as packing material, but the problem remains.

And Amazon did this solely to reduce their own shipping costs. Another example of externalizing their costs.

But now, it is your problem, not Jeff Bezos' problem.

Faulting Amazon is easy.

and predatory capitalists for making these terrible decisions based on the sole consideration of making them richer at the expense of others.

when it comes to these things.

Look at packaging in your grocery store. Look at packaging at the mall. Order meats from Omaha Steaks. The list goes on. Amazon is an easy out and ignores the reason for the problems.

And often, ALEC drafts legislation for legislators to pass. Many lawmakers are often too busy raising money for the endless campaign to actually learn about the issues.

So they allow lobbyists to write the laws.

But they have limited control. We really need to do something about this at the federal level. I think we agree on a lot of this. Just about all of it. Packaging is huge. So much of this is a big deal. We need comprehensive environmental reforms but a huge part of our legislators are not willing to do it. Not only that, many want to roll back regulations.

And on a Federal level, House members are basically always in campaign mode because of the 2 year term.

So the 1% effectively controls what is considered to be achievable.

I need them to ship my jewelry in.

We also reuse packaging material when mailing.

Glossed mailers along with envelopes that have windows rather than paper labels.

And layers of packaging.