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Amazon Plans To Make 50% of Shipments Net Zero Carbon by 2030 (venturebeat.com) 58

Posted by msmash from the marching-forward dept.
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.
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  • 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.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by AmiMoJo ( 196126 )

      Cover the distribution centre in solar panels, and offset some more by adding a surcharge to the delivery that gets invested in carbon reduction tech like trees and capture. There is also the packing material to consider, which has a lifetime carbon footprint.

      They may also try some more dubious methods such as claiming that a delivered item resulted in one fewer trip to the shops by their customer, or one fewer delivery to a rival retailer that only uses dirty, dirty diesel.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by Dunbal ( 464142 ) *
      It's going to be a marketing thing, where the customer is asked to pay more money and told they're "helping the environment" and Amazon will use that money to buy forest land to tell everyone they've "offset the carbon". Net result is the customer will subsidize land acquisition by Amazon - tax free.
  • 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?

    • Yes, yes it is. The word "manipulate" has a negative connotation though. I am sure Amazon see this as offering customers additional options. You are looking at that newest iPhone, perhaps you should also see what the newest Samsung has to offer. Being that Amazon offers nearly everything, people go there to shop (and may not buy anything) like those Boomers use to do in these places called Department Stores, or Gen-Xer in a places called Malls. Today Amazon is nearly the monopoly in store front.

      While the

      • 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? [amazon.com]

        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 ab
        • Yeah, Amazon loves analytics so rather than rely on javascript which may be blocked by a browser or browser extension, it appears they just put everything they need in the URL.

          Note, the minimum needed for the catalog address above was https://www.amazon.com/dp/B072... [amazon.com].
          It appears you posted your order number in your link. I recognize the 130-XXXXXX-XXXXX format.

    • 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

    • Grocery stores, at least in North America, put the milk and bread at the back of the store so that customers have to walk through the store to get to them. Items that you are likely to buy at the drop of a hat are placed near the checkout so you see them while waiting. They move all of products around the store in order to get customers to look around for them causing them to see everything else. Higher margin products are placed at eye level. Companies are even charged for this. Stores even manage the musi

      • Kudos, I think, to Wegmans. They have milk and bread located in the front of the store. From the entrance, in ascending order you have milk and bread, self checkout, employee checkout.
  • 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... [dilbert.com]
    https://dilbert.com/strip/2019... [dilbert.com]
    https://dilbert.com/strip/2017... [dilbert.com]

  • All carbon emissions from trucks and aircraft will be captured and converted into boxes.
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  • Just reusing the boxes would meet their target.

    • It's the tape that messes that up. There are green recycle-friendly label alternatives, which if purchased in bulk by a very large corporation, would be just as cheap as the non-recyclable labels they currently use, but that would involve someone at Amazon understanding economic supply constraints.

  • 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.

  • 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
  • ...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.

  • 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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