Is Amazon’s packaging gobbling up our forests?
by Angus, 27 July, 2019, 2 comments
Here at woodlands.co.uk, we’re not just interested in how our woodlands are protected and cared for. We also like to know how trees are being used for things like packaging - it occurred to us as yet another order from Amazon arrived with ample brown paper and plenty of space in the box, that the demand on trees from a company the size of Amazon would be very high indeed. So we went to Amazon to ask some questions and we learned a lot more whilst visiting one of Amazon's 200 giant warehouses. The one we visited on an industrial estate in Peterborough is big enough to cover 8 football pitches with a million square feet of space. Read more...
