FILE ART- Pacific Ocean. LOS ANGELES - A new report estimates that Amazon generated enough plastic packaging waste in 2019 to circle the Earth 500 times.Oceana analyzed e-commerce and packaging market data as well as a recent scientific report, published in Science about predicted growth in plastic waste and found that Amazon has a large and rapidly growing plastic pollution footprint."Amazon has a plastic problem," Oceana wrote in the report released on Dec.
15. "Oceana estimates that in 2019, up to 22.44 million pounds of Amazon’s plastic packaging has ended up in the world’s freshwater and marine ecosystems as pollution.