My Guilty Pleasure

I'm addicted to Amazon. I'm not proud of it, but almost everyday, I find myself checking Amazon even if I don't need anything and I keep buying random things like slime or dog treats for my dogs that are currently in Turkey?! Like last night, I ordered a squatty potty. Did I need a squatty potty? Probably not. Was my life perfectly fine without it? Absolutely!

I accept, it is my guilty pleasure cause whenever I go to front desk to get my packages, it's like a surprise to me. I enjoy opening boxes so much, sometimes I buy my detergents from Amazon (not kidding). However, there is one thing that concern me, it's that extra packaging that my order comes in. I of course put my boxes to a recycling bin for cardboards however I really hope they are actually recycled.

Since I really judge big companies with their sustainability efforts now (cause they have all the money and control over a bunch of things), I looked into what Amazon does to contribute, so that I would feel better about my little addiction. They have a whole sustainability report on their website but I their biggest project so far is Amazon's Largest Wind Farm Yet. Amazon has launched 18 wind and solar projects so far and 35 of them are already on the way but Amazon Wind Farm Texas is the biggest one with more than 100 turbines. Together with all these projects Amazon is aiming to provide clean energy for over 300,000 homes and support hundreds of jobs while providing tens of millions of dollars of investment in local communities all across the U.S. which is pretty impressive.

Click here to watch the Amazon Wind Farm Texas's video

For the packaging, Amazon invests a lot of money to further develop their packaging but right now they use something called Certified Frustration Free Packaging that reduces overall packing materials used and that is easy to open. "To date, out suite of sustainable packaging innovations have eliminated 181,000 tons of packaging material and avoided 307 million shipping boxes- enough boxes to fill more than 550,000 semi-trucks" says the Amazon website.

So should I keep shopping on Amazon? I think I should. What do you think?






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