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Amazon Plans To Make 50% of Shipments Net Zero Carbon by 2030 (venturebeat.com)
Amazon says it hopes to make 50 percent of all shipments to customers with net zero carbon in the next 11 years as part of an initiative it's calling Shipment Zero. From a report: It also announced that it'll share a report detailing its companywide carbon footprint -- along with "related goals and programs" -- later this year, and that it'll continue to use customer feedback to "enable" and "encourage" its supply chain partners to reduce their environmental impact. The initiative builds on the Seattle retailer's ongoing work to minimize its contributions to greenhouse gases, Dave Clark, senior vice president of worldwide operations at Amazon, explained in a blog post.
Amazon currently has over 200 scientists, engineers, and product designers dedicated to "inventing new ways" to "leverage [its] scale" for the "good of customers and the planet," he said, and has engaged in an "extensive" project over the past two years to develop a model that provides internal teams with data to help them identify ways to reduce carbon use.
Amazon currently has over 200 scientists, engineers, and product designers dedicated to "inventing new ways" to "leverage [its] scale" for the "good of customers and the planet," he said, and has engaged in an "extensive" project over the past two years to develop a model that provides internal teams with data to help them identify ways to reduce carbon use.
Or will it be a huge vat of sun-ripening algae for producing biodiesel? Either way, Scary Teeth Woman's home would be a great location.
...probably meet them halfway
Amazon appears to me to be a poorly-managed company. One example: Every Amazon web page has the distractions of Amazon trying to sell something else besides the product that interests you. Is trying to manipulate customers good business management?
"use customer feedback to "enable" and "encourage" its supply chain partners to reduce their environmental impact"
Does anyone here really think that Chinese manufacturers will reduce their environmental impact?
Too late to make a difference? Nice!
Well done, Ama$on!
Let's see who is first to succeed!
Almost 50% of vehicles are EVs in China.
Stop buying from Amazon.
They destroy local jobs and local businesses.
They pay no taxes.
They are a blight on the United States.
lolololololol
I thought I just read that Amazon switched to a soft package for many orders instead of carboard and they were clogging up recycling sorters. Customers thought they were eligible for recycling and they were not. Apparently Amazon doing a little PR with this announcement.
Amazon appears to me to be a poorly-managed company.
Are you being ironic and making a joke or is this a serious (and stupid) question? I can't tell. Amazon sells close to half of all online retail sales in the US. If that is poorly managed then give me some of that. I'm sure it's just an accident that Jeff Bezos is now the richest man on the planet.
Every Amazon web page has the distractions of Amazon trying to sell something else besides the product that interests you.
They have mountains of data that says a lot of their customers buy those other products at or around the same time as the one you are looking at. Why would they not try to sell both items at the same time?
Is trying to manipulate customers good business management?
Have you ever actually been in a store? You think a retail business trying to sell you more stuff is somehow unusual or bad? Of course they are trying to sell you as much stuff as they can. Only an idiot doesn't understand this and it's not some evil plot. Why do you think retail stores have all their merchandise sitting out on the floor for you to look at? Same thing. Exactly the same thing.
But the other 50%? Whoo boy, it's gonna be like shipping charcoal in a box made out of carbon paper.
Scott Adams's forecast for $COMPANY_NAME.
https://dilbert.com/strip/2019...
https://dilbert.com/strip/2019...
https://dilbert.com/strip/2017...
All carbon emissions from trucks and aircraft will be captured and converted into boxes.
50% will be net zero carbon, the remaining 50% will have an increase of 100% carbon imprint
Real TV news says so. LOL
In another meeting they decided they needed to have cheaper packaging. That would mean that 50% would increase carbon usage by 150%
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
The coal Santa gives to people on the naughty list is sequestered from the atmosphere. Maybe Amazon is going to start sending coal to people on the naughty list. Unfortunately, there is no publicly available naughty list because it was seen as "giving them a platform" and everyone on the naughty list was summarily deplatformed from it.
less cowbell? That can't be right. More cowbell!
Just reusing the boxes would meet their target.
Even Bill Gates thinks we can't get to zero carbon without nuclear power.
https://stopthesethings.com/2019/02/18/bill-gates-slams-unreliable-wind-solar-lets-quit-jerking-around-with-renewables-batteries/
Once people come to realize how much a failure wind, solar, and batteries are then we can get to working on a real solution.
and instead of 2030 why not make it now. See the problem is by saying they are going to improve in 2030, they are admitting that they are failing to be 120% perfect right now. This is opening themselves up to a lawsuit.
"So mr Bozos, i understand that you in your own marketing plan stated your company was contributing greenhouse gasses and hence causing the extermination of disadvantaged minorities (DM). The way to show you truly care about DM and the planet is to agree to this simple settlement that will give us lawyers a couple hundred million to show how sorry for polluting the planet"
The marketing ploy should have said that they are continuously producing less carbon dioxide than ever before by harnessing the power of love for humanity, which has been a hallmark of Amazon since the beginning of time.
If you combine solar, wind, and a third source like batteries or hydroelectricity, it's very easy to achieve 99 percent green power.
The major problem is the envelopes they use now jam up the recycling machines, due to using plastics.
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It seems to me that there is a lot of other sloppiness in the design of Amazon web pages.
It's okay to recommend other products. Recommendations could be at the bottom of the page.
Why have a lot of blank space under the image?
Now Amazon web addresses have a lot of coding we are not allowed to understand. An example, this is the working Amazon web page address given above:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0722DMYTN/ref=br_msw_pdt-5/130-5936011-9843524
This is what Amazon wants sent: (For the address above, I removed the coding.)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0722DMYTN/ref=br_msw_pdt-5/130-5936011-9843524?_encoding=UTF8&smid=A3C4ATI46R3AXM&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=&pf_rd_r=XGG9QKGBQ5TP7MG7A7T4&pf_rd_t=36701&pf_rd_p=182628c5-bc31-4d16-a82d-3758ab4ea7a9&pf_rd_i=desktop
(Google is now doing that with Google News.)
I know how to do that. Make 50% of your shipments net zero carbon, and make the other 50% of shipments use 200% the regular amount of carbon.
https://www.amazon.com/firewoo...
Buying carbon credits, or buying electricity from a renewable power source doesn't reduce greenhouse gases. All it does is force someone else who was buying carbon credits or buying renewable power to switch to fossil fuel power. If the power grid is 15% renewable and your business operations expand to add 1 TWh of demand to it in a year, that extra TWh has to be generated by fossil fuels because that's the only energy source which can ramp up to match excess demand. You cannot make the sun shine longer onto PV panels, you cannot make the wind blow harder, you cannot make more rain fall into a hydroelectric reservoir. Your shell game where you buy "your" electricity from renewable sources means someone else's electricity gets pushed out of the renewable shell into the fossil fuel shell, resulting in no net change for the country overall.
The only way to increase renewable power consumption is to build new renewable energy generation facilities. If you're not adding renewable capacity, then all this brouhaha over 50% zero carbon is just marketing glitz with zero real improvement. Every company can claim 100% of their energy comes from renewables even though renewables only supply 15% of the country's energy, as long as no single company exceeds 15% of the nation's energy consumption.
...Amazon isn't a major contributor to consumerism, whereby we measure our success by how quickly we can dig stuff up out of the ground & turn it into pollution, is it? Never has it been so easy to buy & sell so much crappy stuff that people don't need & makes no difference to their sad little isolated, hyper-individualistic lives. Consumerism is a sickness that needs a cure, not ways to sustain it & make it more efficient.
Debate is a form of harassment. Do not question my truth.
Given the frequency their delivery contractors fail to perform the core of their job function correctly, i.e. actually deliver the package to the correct address undamaged and on time, they hardly qualify as carbon based life-forms.
Bravo for getting a head start on carbon reductions, Amazon!
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...250 bags 50 pounds of charcoal for my grill.
That'd take lots of carbon off Amazon's hands.
Thanks for the information. I didn't have an order. When I start my computer, all cookies are deleted. So, what information is Amazon encrypting?
Zero carbon, zero tax paid
Hemp packaging materials. Letting tree farms go to old growth will reduce forest fires more than anything in the Green New Deal can.