Amazon ends use of plastic pillows in UK fulfilment centres

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Online retail giant will instead use 100 per cent recycled and 100 per cent recyclable packing paper in its parcels

Amazon customers in the UK will no longer receive items shipped from its fulfilment centres that contain plastic air pillows, the company has announced, in the latest move designed to curb the tech and...

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