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Where All Those Amazon Boxes Come from…and Where They Go

Let’s take a trip down the corrugated river.

By Stefan Milne November 16, 2016 Published in the December 2016 issue of Seattle Met

Almost half of all holiday shopping is now done online—on Cyber Monday 2015 alone, people ordered 23 million items from Amazon—which requires a lot of boxes. Where does all that cardboard come from, where does it go, and what is its environmental impact? 

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