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

Let’s take a trip down the corrugated river.

Stefan Milne
Author: Stefan Milne
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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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Published in the Hidden Seattle issue of Seattle Met.




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Stefan Milne
Stefan Milne
Stefan Milne is the arts and culture editor for Seattle Met. He’s a Washington native and earned an M.A. in English from Central Washington University. He’s published journalism, fiction, and poetry in Gargoyle Magazine, The Stranger, and others. You can likely find him reading or cooking vegetables from his garden.