Editing E-commerce (section)

=== Impact on the environment ===
In 2018, E-commerce generated {{convert|1.3|e6ST|abbr=off}} of container [[cardboard]] in North America, an increase from {{convert|1.1|e6ST|abbr=values}}) in 2017. Only 35 percent of North American cardboard manufacturing capacity is from recycled content. The recycling rate in Europe is 80 percent and Asia is 93 percent. Amazon, the largest user of [[Cardboard box|boxes]], has a strategy to cut back on packing material and has reduced packaging material used by 19 percent by weight since 2016. Amazon is requiring retailers to manufacture their product packaging in a way that does not require additional shipping packaging. Amazon also has an 85-person team researching ways to reduce and improve their packaging and shipping materials.<ref>{{cite news|last=DePillis|first=Lynda|date=16 July 2019|title=Amazon's incredible, vanishing cardboard box|work=[[CNN Business]]|url=https://edition.cnn.com/2019/07/16/business/amazon-cardboard-box-prime-day/|url-status=live|access-date=4 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190716130808/https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/16/business/amazon-cardboard-box-prime-day/index.html|archive-date=2019-07-16}}</ref>

Accelerated movement of packages around the world includes accelerated movement of living things, with all [[invasive species|its attendant risks]].<ref name="Newman-2020" /> [[Weed]]s, [[crop pest|pests]], and [[crop disease|disease]]s all sometimes travel in packages of seeds.<ref name="Newman-2020" /> Some of these packages are part of [[brushing (e-commerce)|brushing manipulation]] of e-commerce reviews.<ref name="Newman-2020">{{cite news | access-date=2022-09-17 | year=2020 | last1=Newman | first1=Jesse | last2=Bunge | first2=Jacob | newspaper=[[The Wall Street Journal]] | url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-postal-service-is-urged-to-stop-delivering-mysterious-seeds-11596555249 | title=U.S. Postal Service Is Urged to Stop Delivering Mysterious Seeds | archive-date=20 September 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220920192435/https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-postal-service-is-urged-to-stop-delivering-mysterious-seeds-11596555249 | url-status=live }}</ref>