Product Sustainability
As part of our mission to be Earth’s most customer-centric company, we are working to give our customers access to more sustainable products, from thousands of Amazon-branded products we develop and manufacture, to millions of retail and third-party items sold in Amazon’s store.
Product Sustainability
Amazon’s sustainable shopping initiatives give customers the chance to buy more sustainable products. We are committed to helping customers find products that exceed the social and environmental benefits of comparable options when they shop in our stores.
Helping Customers Discover More Sustainable Products
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75,000Climate Pledge Friendly productsAs of June 2021, customers can shop for more than 75,000 Climate Pledge Friendly products in categories ranging from health and household items, to office products and electronics. Climate Pledge Friendly products are clearly labelled in shopping results and have additional sustainability information on their product pages.
Sustainable Product Development
Amazon works with the suppliers of our branded products to drive sustainability improvements across the stages of material sourcing, design, manufacturing and customer use. Our global teams also work closely with our suppliers to communicate our human rights standards and help suppliers build their capacity to provide safe and respectful working environments.
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Household GoodsWe are working to increase the sustainable attributes across Amazon-owned Private Brands baby, household cleaning, personal care and beauty products. -
Food and GroceryAmazon offers a range of sustainable food and grocery options and uses many sustainably sourced, third-party certified ingredients across our Amazon-branded selection. -
Fashion and ClothingWe are committed to making it easier for our customers to choose high-quality, sustainable clothing products. -
Amazon DevicesWe are making Amazon devices more sustainable, from how we build them to how our customers use them.
Amazon Chemicals Policies
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Restricted Substance ListWe seek to avoid having any of these chemicals in our Amazon-owned Private Brands baby, household cleaning, personal care and beauty products in the US and Europe.
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Food Contact MaterialsFor our Amazon Kitchen-brand products, we seek to avoid the intentional addition of this list of chemicals to our food contact packaging.
We are making Amazon devices more sustainable, from how we build them to how our customers use them. We incorporate recycled materials into many new Amazon devices, giving new life to materials that could otherwise end up in waste streams. We have also developed features like Low Power Mode to reduce the energy devices consume during periods of inactivity over their lifetime. In 2020, we added Low Power Mode to the latest models of Echo and Fire TV devices and are rolling out free over-the-air updates to bring Low Power Mode to older models of devices already in customers’ homes.
Partnerships
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Better Cotton InitiativeTo support the transition of sourcing more sustainable cotton for Amazon-owned Private Brand clothing products, Amazon joined the Better Cotton Initiative (BCI) in 2019, a global non-profit organisation and the largest cotton sustainability programme in the world. BCI exists to make global cotton production better for the people who produce it, better for the environment it grows in, and better for the sector’s future. In 2021, we also joined BCI’s Retailer and Brand Advisory Panel on Traceability. -
Leather Working GroupAmazon joined the Leather Working Group to support the transition to more sustainable leather in Amazon-owned Private Brand clothing products. The Leather Working Group seeks to improve the leather manufacturing industry by creating alignment on environmental priorities, bringing visibility to best practices, and providing suggested guidelines for continual improvement. -
Sustainable Apparel CoalitionAmazon joined the Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC), an industry-wide group of more than 250 leading clothing and footwear brands, retailers, manufacturers, non-governmental organisations, academic experts and government organisations working to reduce the environmental and social impacts of clothing products around the world. We encourage our Amazon-branded suppliers to evaluate their practices using the Coalition’s Higg Index, a tool to help manufacturers measure the social and environmental performance of their facilities. -
Textile ExchangeAmazon joined Textile Exchange to support our commitment to sustainable clothing. Textile Exchange a global non-profit that works with its members to drive industry transformation in preferred fibres, including recycled materials. Textile Exchange identifies and shares best practices on farming, materials, processing, traceability and product end-of-life in order to reduce the textile industry’s impact on the world’s water, soil and air, and the human population.
Latest news
See how we put our scale and inventive culture to work on building a sustainable future.
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As well as increasing the number of devices that are recycled, Amazon Trade-In provides customers with Amazon Gift Cards to save on future purchases. -
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Together with governments and leading companies around the globe, Amazon is accelerating climate action as part of the LEAF Coalition, an ambitious public-private initiative.
