[Music] shopping has become a lot more convenient over the years but that convenience comes at a cost more than 100 million people around the world have whatever they buy delivered right to their doorstep usually in a neatly packaged box but all that packaging has to go somewhere and a lot of it is ending up here the problem with the online shopping is that it creates a lot of ways in theory just about every part of the packaging and online orders can be recycled in some way from the cardboard box to the packing peanuts and the
plastic bubble wrap but even if you send these materials for recycling these might still end up in landfills the reason why it doesn't get recycled is that there's really no market for it because it's cheaper to buy new plastics than to recycle plastics our click to buy habits are creating a big problem that may only get bigger from December 2017 to 2018 people around the globe ordered more than 2 billion products with one day delivery or faster and that's using Amazon Prime alone that's a lot of packaging that's hurting our planet but there are companies
out there trying to reduce our footprint including Amazon it's now letting American Prime members choose a day of the week to be their delivery day this makes it easier to get their deliveries grouped together and in many cases in fewer packages other companies are trying to skip putting in any packing materials altogether there's also something you can do to make mother nature happy you could skip the click altogether and shop locally just remember to bring your reusable bag [Music]
