In response to growing pressure to address the plastic pollution crisis, Amazon has been cutting down on plastic packaging. Last July, the company said it used 11.6 percent less plastic for all of its shipments globally in 2022, compared to 2021. Much of Amazon’s reductions took place in countries that have enacted—or threatened to enact—restrictions on certain types of plastic packaging. But the company’s progress may not extend to the US, which has not regulated plastic production on a federal level.