@@whopperlover1772 i think that's because they don't want environmentalists poking their nose. But i do think they could be more efficient if they did.
In some cases they do build they're own boxes, as do many companies that have a vast array of products that require different sizes and different protection needs. One such company is WestRock who supplies the customer with the machine as well as corrugated material to be made into final box. It's a great system as it cuts down not only on packaging material and overall dimensions, but also on filler material needed to protect the product/order.
The clue is in the name, destroy the AMAZON rain forest, replace with palm oil trees and aloe Vera plants home to the little Shellac bug, best source of Red pigment for food and lipsticks.
What about the episode when Bart and Lisa orders 1000s of free boxes and they built huge castle. Then get into corrugated war with UPS. Yet Target recycles ALL packaging products from the stores to the warehouses for more eco-friendly process. And will reuse the warehouse shipping boxes over and over and over to the stores until its totally unuseable!
That's just a TV studio where they film Krusty the Clown *and other non-box related progamming*. Since it has nothing to do with boxes, I'll just close this blind.
actually. China does have trees of the right types. but not enough for their own demands. they are also neighbors with Russia, who have more trees than anyone would ever need.
@@flabbergasted5588 darn, that's true :)) This is what happens when you're not focused on what you are doing and, on top of that, you type in your third language :)) sry :/
Elvis TheKing it’s very useful when you order a lot of stuff. If your just buying 1-2 items a month then i wouldn’t recommend it, but unlike me I buy 12-15 items a month.
Reminds me about the Spongebob episode where squidward watches tv and sees a documentary about boxes then switches Channels and sees a box fight where boxes fight lol
Whatever box the computer tells the packer they have to use. One can not downgrade to a smaller box. If the packers do then it may take longer to get your shipment.
@@dontsubscribetothischannel8395 you dimbo. They're only putting things that fit and won't get damaged during shipping in bags. It's not like everything is going into a bag. They'd lose money on returns if they did that
Video didn't mention that recycling boxes has a substantial carbon footprint: transporting from homes to recycling centers to businesses that break them down to pulp and make them into paper (an energy-intensive process), to box manufacturers, to distributors to retailers. Still researching, but using plastic containers that can be reused 100's of times may be better for the environment (delivery people keep the plastic container and return it to Amazon). Amazon's fleet of 30 cargo jets for two-day shipping has a huge carbon footprint. The best thing for the environment is for people to get their butts off the couch and go to a store (efficiently) and purchase the item. Most stores receive their shipments by rail and/or truck which is most efficient with the least carbon footprint.
@@bigmuscles250lbs that's not true, ordering groceries online is 43% more efficient. as you said trucks are more efficient, thus having 1 truck drive to 100 houses is better than 100 cars driving to the store. the meal plan things are even better since they eliminate a lot of food waste and travel from farm > packaging facility > your house instead of farm > packaging facility > distribution facility > store > your house. but the 43% study was conducted by amazon so do with that what you will
@@Penguiniel I'm not sure about that, the post office is still reusing plastic boxes from the 90s, and when they break they're melted down into a new box
@@haileywegman5659 they mentioned in the video that Amazon was moving towards waxed paper instead of plastic but the reporter kept acting like it was only the option of plastic or boxes moving forward. It was... Strange....
Bamboo is used in cardboard already. Although the harvesting is a little harder than more traditional materials, it can yield more material per physical area for growth per year.
Hemp yes. Bamboo no. Bamboo boxes are not environmentally friendly because bamboo takes 20+ years to grow to maturity . Hemp on the otherhand, we could grow a forest of weed trees in 6 months which will turn over possibly trillions in revenue and it's easily renewable
@@brandonhamilton8871 Bamboo is the fastest growing plant on the planet dude. It grows one millimeter per hour and gets 20 feet tall in one season. Hemp is valuable for it's long fibers, for rope and cloth but cardboard is much harder to make with hemp.
@@brandonhamilton8871 Your wrong Bamboo takes 2-3 years to grow the initial patch then 3-4 months for regrowth after cutting. Bamboo takes less time to grow to maturity than timber which can take decades.
@@brandonhamilton8871 I didn't realize it took that long with bamboo. Hemp can be grown in as little as 4 months, at least when you are growing it for buds, not fiber. Maybe bamboo could be bred to grow faster like pot was.
That’s what CNBC does. They are the church for stock cults in shares that don’t pay dividends. When the company doesn’t pay dividends, they need to advertise their stock, that’s where CNBC comes in...
Maybe in the future we will use some reusable boxes, ones that people return or are even picked up from homes at the next delivery and keep reusing the same ones over and over again.
The best part about these boxes is that they're completely biodegradable, so no matter how many boxes Amazon ships, they'll still be non-harmful to our environment.I am currently making a video on this very issue. Great job CNBC.
Biodegradable boxes does not equal being non-harmful to the environment. If they ship enough boxes to warrant clear cutting huge quantities of trees, that'd be pretty harmful.
Yes, it should. In India, Flipkart has started the same last year. They are picking up the delivered product boxes/ plastic bags. I appreciate the attempt made to protect environment.
The design of some carriers using semi-flexible plastic allows for some cushioning. With those mounted in a corrugated box. About equal to a foam block in the same box.
Before I retired this year I worked in a supply warehouse where we stocked their boxes and it took up many aisles from floor to ceiling. We shipped out trailer loads every week.
@ Fun Time -- It could be that ONE of their suppliers of _THAT_ printed paper tape that is making tape with crummy adhesive... I say that because I usually have trouble ripping _that_ tape off the boxes by hand... then a couple of months ago, I bought a VERY lightweight seat cushion and someone at the post office had to use their red USPS tape to re-tape the box because Amazon's tape was falling off. (No lost anything, so I was good.)
Companies don't care if their boxes are sealed correctly or not. They just want it on the truck and out of their building ASAP. I worked at a packaging company and was forced to work too fast to even close the boxes. They'd pop back open as soon as they were stacked onto the pallet, with wet tape still hanging everywhere. Nobody cared. It just had to get out the damn door.
@@sunglassesgirl it’s a water based tape. if the warehouse personnel didn’t tape it good the tape will dry and come off. i usually just wet it with a water bottle to activate the glue and stick it on the box again.
JosefsensDK plastic is not easily recyclable it’s actually hard to recycle because it’s expensive to recycle. That’s why only 9% of plastic is recycled. Micro plastic is also in our food chain and water supply which should worry you as scientists don’t know how it’s affecting us due to it only being around for less than a century.
I work in corrugate design and the ecological issue is not with what Amazon uses to ship but the entire model of eCommerce over brick and mortar. It's great that some less harmful packaging is in Amazon's financial interest (Don't be fooled by their greenwashing) but fundamentally their system is shockingly more damaging than the norms of commerce. I'm not saying eCommerce should be outlawed, there are numerous reasons why it is important to many consumers and I go to amazon for certain things but the vast majority of products people buy on Amazon could (and should) be purchased in store when possible. USPS, Fedex, amazon, and most products you purchase online are considered single-parcel shipment which really should be a last ditch effort as far as distribution is concerned. Single parcel forces distributors to use massive amounts of packaging to ship each item because it will be thrown and dropped at every step on its way to you. It also puts more trucks on the road, making more stops, burning tons and tons of fuel. All of this while giving you a damaged product more frequently than any store. I also resent this video for insinuating that amazon invented ship testing. There has been standardized testing used for over 50 years and as long as there has been major trade there has been some form of shipment testing. For years amazon has tried to sell themselves as the heroes, solving the problems they created.
if amazon stops using ridiculously large size boxes for their small items.... then maybe MAYBE their shipping costs wouldnt be so high. just saying amazon
You are probably a guy without the knowledge for this subject. Products in tight boxes have 2x chances to be broken or damaged fromcthe shipping process. It cost less to use bigger boxes then having to pay for the broken product and another one..
At one point, I had a mountain of Amazon shipping boxes. Tried using some to mail for items I sold online, but still too many. I wish they could deliver the item, wait a few minutes while I open it, remove the items, and take back the box!
The Saudi princes and Kings of the world think they're so grand and powerful sitting on wealth passed on to them while ONE man singlehandedly built the world's richest company from scratch. Now that, is impressive
Princes and Kings wealth is a lot more than just pure money. Most of Bezos’s wealth is Amazon’s stock, which could be vanished after 1 night if something terrible happen, same goes with many other richest people. Kings and Princes assets, in the other hands, often are in real estates and other physical properties, not to mention they also have massive authority power and other hidden. Their wealth is much more sustainable and concreted although the amount seems vastly lower than the top 10 richest people.
Another important aspect of why just relying on consumers to recycle can't work is, in my area we now have a VERY short list of things we're allowed to recycle. My area doesn't have great recycling infrastructure so we shipped most of it overseas, which we can no longer do. We want to recycle more, but we can't. We get charged for incorrect things in recycling as well.
In the Netherlands the biggest ecommerce company now ships big items in good boxes without boxes around then. They seal it with thin transparent plastic and then stick the shipping label on it.
It should be a program specifically for this issue such as “Buy Back” maybe 5c per pound? Or something of that topic , Amazon will benefit since is the same box and plastic .... anyway just a thought.
Won't ever happen to boxes while durable are most definitely not reusable. I work in the pharmaceutical logistical industry and we send out packages insides a temperature controlled shipper inside of a corrugated box one time use when it comes back to us its practically unrecognizable on the outside.
Its 4:47 am, and I’m watching a video on boxes. This reminds me of that commercial spongebob was watching where the guy goes “i didnt know what to get ya, so i got you this box”
The problem with the air pillows is that Amazon uses them to fill empty space in the box - not actually cushion the contents from vibration or impact. The same thing with their craft-paper filler. With either option, Amazon places your items in the bottom of the box, then just fills the empty space. They do nothing to protect your purchases.
I’m a Ups Driver and from experience these boxes are not the best, they get damage so easy and the tape Amazon uses is the worst! They only put one strip of tape for any box or weight and half of the time I’m re taping it
The most amazing thing about this is #CNBC managed to make a 16 minute video about boxes without directly answering the question in the title. I still don't know who makes Amazon's boxes.
Hilarious... Looking to "cut carbon emissions" by switching from renewable (tree) cardboard to non-renewable (oil) plastic bags. While the climate change people scream how we need to get off relying on oil. 🤣
My thoughts exactly. I throw those packages away every time since they don't go in a recycling bin. How is that good for the environment? Even if I have to throw a box away, that cardboard box will biodegrade relatively quickly. The plastic bag can can sit in a dump for up to 1000 years. If anything, we should be pushing for more paper. Also, let's not forget, trees clean the air.
The amount of space a box takes up whilst being transported is far greater than when plastic packaging is used. Therefore more products can be transported per trip leading to a reduction in carbon emissions due to transport of goods. I think this is what they meant anyway
They can switch to plant-based plastic. It doesn't have to be oil. The only thing keeping them from doing this, is money. But eventually that obstacle will be overcome.
What's really kinda interesting is this last summer I used all my Amazon boxes in my garden around my flower beds and such.... then a few months later where I put those boxes I got HUGE mushrooms!! It was a HUGE colony of morel mushrooms. Their boxes were contaminated with mushroom spores and my flower beds were a huge mess. Now all those boxes go in the recycling bin. What a waste!! I'd like to know why morel mushroom spores were all over them.
I'm glad the video mentioned the negative aspects of post-consumer flexible packaging. No matter how much lipstick you still have a pig. Most plastic packaging can be recycled but it isn't, that's the reality. As the video noted, over 90% of corrugated boxes are recycled. By the way, most new boxes already contain at least one third recycled paper. It's the only packaging material that keeps on giving.
ups/fedex doesn't take care of your boxes when they deliver to your place.. 1 time i have package inside my box inside is broken.. all things fall out..
Honestly just make sure its enviromentally friendly and recyclable. Tho i do not want to continue cutting down our Canadian forests and replacing them with everygreen trees.
11:25 fake staged scene. none of the boxes have markings and the box the guy is handling is not taped on the bottom. he's essentially holding an open box upside down...
I spent all kind of money on my cat for various beds which she would use for a few days or so and get tired of. Then one day I caught her sleeping on an Amazon pouch mailer (the kind lined on the inside with bubble wrap) that I had left out after I opened it. It is my cat's favorite bed! I replace it every few months if I get another Amazon delivery in the same pouch.
Great Video for my FYI. I am a project manager at Detroit Stoker Company and we supply Parts and Service to the Boiler Stokers in all those plants which produce the steam to make those boxes. Man how the world goes round!
All the workers do not look happy... This is a lie: not long ago, I ordered from amazon 4 items that may not need packing. They would have fitted in one box. I got four big boxes with lots of bubble wrap, one per item... I do not like online shopping, but we are forced to do so. Stores have less items than they used to. If you ask for something or for a different size, the salespeople are trained to answer: go online, there are more options online...
I haul paper rolls used to make these boxes, and sometimes finished boxes, so I am frequently at paper mills and box plants, and yes, recycling is real, and very important. A lot of the paper mills on the west coast bring in nearly a many truck loads of cardboard bales from stores and recycling centers and such, as they ship out finished paper. And the mills that make printing paper use incredibe amounts of all forms of recycled materials, because they need different types of fibers to make different grades of paper, and so they have streams of trucks bringing the different materials in, as well as giant piles of wood chips to make the new materials. I know that one mill that I am at frequently had to shut one of their production lines down because they couldn't get enough good quality recycled paper to keep it running.
The story of how two brothers - and five other men - parlayed a small business loan into a thriving paper goods concern is a long and interesting one. And here it is...
These skids of cardboard took up a ton of space in our warehouse and every order we got the person placing the orders was always in panic mode for delivery 😮
10 years later.. Amazon builds its own box.
20 years later Amazon becomes a monopoly in the 📦 market
Honestly surprising they haven’t yet
Cut the year numbers in half
Relio what industry WONT they monopolize..
@@whopperlover1772 i think that's because they don't want environmentalists poking their nose. But i do think they could be more efficient if they did.
In some cases they do build they're own boxes, as do many companies that have a vast array of products that require different sizes and different protection needs. One such company is WestRock who supplies the customer with the machine as well as corrugated material to be made into final box. It's a great system as it cuts down not only on packaging material and overall dimensions, but also on filler material needed to protect the product/order.
Dunder Mifflin should have pivoted to the box business instead of printers...
The People Person’s Paper People.
Ikr!
Dwight would be watching this video carefully!
Hope Dwight can overcome Staples.
But then their boxes would catch on fire probably.
The clue is in the name, destroy the AMAZON rain forest, replace with palm oil trees and aloe Vera plants home to the little Shellac bug, best source of Red pigment for food and lipsticks.
@@DIGITAL7Media hey that was sabre dont blame dunder mifflin
Howww did CNBC make a video about boxes so interesting?
Well one of the employees really *thought outside the box*
Is this reply from the future?
It doesn’t take much to entertain people.
The background music is the secret sauce
They've been on a roll for a while. Never thought I'd be following CNBC videos (yet here we are).
Can’t help but think about the Simpson episode when the school goes to the box factory
"Oh my god, that's his lucky red cap! He's a box! My boy's a box!!!"
I’m glad your the first comment I seen and what I was looking for!
Charlie Badge lmao I went to the PCA factory in Illinois as a field trip for my engineering class.
What about the episode when Bart and Lisa orders 1000s of free boxes and they built huge castle. Then get into corrugated war with UPS.
Yet Target recycles ALL packaging products from the stores to the warehouses for more eco-friendly process. And will reuse the warehouse shipping boxes over and over and over to the stores until its totally unuseable!
That's just a TV studio where they film Krusty the Clown *and other non-box related progamming*.
Since it has nothing to do with boxes, I'll just close this blind.
"America is the Saudi Arabia of trees" LOL
We're also the Saudi Arabia of wind power
We are the Saudi Arabia of debt
Venezuela is the Saudi Arabia of Oil
So that makes Canada what? We got more forest.
The Mecca of stuff. I wonder where Mecca is located?
Brazil is the Saudi Arabia of trees...with its own Amazon, LOL.
MyKingdomForanRV paper is not made from jungle trees
America is a continent, not a country, Brasil is part of america
@@adrianmorph HEY! If you don't like 'Merica, you can GIT OUT!
MAGA - Build The Wall
Not for long, if they keep destroying it.
@@joesterling4299 The analogy still stands as Saudi oil depletes. ;-)
“China certainly doesn’t have trees”
They do, but just like what he said about India, not the right type.
@tommy aronson Have you seen China? They do have trees, not as abundant as US and not the right type, but they do.
I’ve lived in China. Mountains are everywhere (in the rural area, not in the cities).
Rural China has a lot of trees lol
actually. China does have trees of the right types. but not enough for their own demands.
they are also neighbors with Russia, who have more trees than anyone would ever need.
Bamboo isnt a tree, it is a type of grass!
I did this for entrepreneurship class all I did was sell boxes for shipping company’s and restraunt take out boxes and got an F
Decay really? Sounds like a pretty good idea to me.
should have gotten an A+
You got an F? Well thats good because F stands for Fabulous!
Maybe because even you have a good idea, you business plan is flawed
Maybe cause of your grammar and spelling? 😉
You know you're a huge company when you have a PhD serving as Director Of Customer Packaging Experience on the payroll.
That's nothing. New days with an PhD, if you're lucky, you can get work at McDonald's!
@@ShonHarito2 RIP your English lmfao “an” and typos XD
@@flabbergasted5588 darn, that's true :))
This is what happens when you're not focused on what you are doing and, on top of that, you type in your third language :)) sry :/
Being a postal carrier, I swear half of the big boxes I deliver are filled only with air. Smh.
i bought 5 amazon shares at 400$. now they are at like 1700$. thanks bezos for making my portfolio go up. i am tired of winning.
Actually, they closed at 1,988.30 today.
I wanna know how you guys know what to buy and how you earn money of it. I need to do my homework about all that
Orlando read "the intelligent investor" not just for it's content but it'll also build your patience.
I kick myself for not buying in 2008 when stocks tanked. I would of been a millionaire.
Amazon gave me a share when I got hired should I sell or hold onto it?
Please God, NO MORE PLASTIC "solutions"! UGH!
@@wakaisgood yeah sure
What do you think the phone your looking at is made of?
@@ageorgiev89 well said.👏
@@ageorgiev89 what a dumbfuck
@@TapiaJ do you use your phone for 1 day then bin it?
I'm sitting here watching a documentary about cardboard boxes! My life is so great and fulfilling! Yay 2020!
I always save the packaging to re-use it for eBay. Boxes and bubble mailers. I just make sure to take the barcodes and address off.
It’s not free two day shipping. You have to pay for the prime membership which is $120.00 a year.
And if you actually use amazon, its 100% worth it.
Its free if you use other people Amazon account.
Elvis TheKing it’s very useful when you order a lot of stuff. If your just buying 1-2 items a month then i wouldn’t recommend it, but unlike me I buy 12-15 items a month.
I hope these packaging companies adapt and develop more to eco friendlier options for those plastic bags & bubble wraps.
Over population and nonsense purchases are the real problem
Lukas unfortunately, being a lesser of two evils still doesn’t make it a good kind of environmental waste.
The plastic allows for less fuel consumption compared to cardboard weight. During shipping
Plastic goes into burnable trash.
Ulatan, I agree. The plastic needs to be easily recycled, or easily decomposed.
Reminds me about the Spongebob episode where squidward watches tv and sees a documentary about boxes then switches Channels and sees a box fight where boxes fight lol
I remember when I ordered a small 10” windshield wiper for the back of my car , it came in a box that was big enough to fit a sword or something 😂
I ordered a single 2 battery tab. Literally came in a 1foot by 1 foot box and I found it lodged in between the flaps
Whatever box the computer tells the packer they have to use. One can not downgrade to a smaller box. If the packers do then it may take longer to get your shipment.
Lesson learned is next time you order a windshield wiper, order a sword as well.
I swear that this is also the one thing I remember from all the packaging I ever received. The box for my wiper blade was OBSCENE!
It's because their system requires cubic scanning. It's really messed up. It tells the packer the wrong box size half of the time.
I shop online a lot... I also sell things online. I always re-use the boxes!
Funny thing is how much shipping boxes alone cost.
congratulations, do you want a biscuit ?
@@sylvestregalli5113 Can I have a biscuit
@@sylvestregalli5113 she must be sore by now from patting herself on the back.
We don't need more plastic. Amazon needs to be more proactive in environmental issues. Need to develop better alternatives.
hard plastic?
@@pyrophobia133 they can make paper bags that do the same thing as the plastic bags
@@scottyhaines4226 my brand new HDTV will go in great protection being shipped in a paper bag. Sorry but cardboard is life
@@dontsubscribetothischannel8395 you dimbo. They're only putting things that fit and won't get damaged during shipping in bags. It's not like everything is going into a bag. They'd lose money on returns if they did that
We don’t need more plastic we need alternative eco friendly packaging.
Video didn't mention that recycling boxes has a substantial carbon footprint: transporting from homes to recycling centers to businesses that break them down to pulp and make them into paper (an energy-intensive process), to box manufacturers, to distributors to retailers. Still researching, but using plastic containers that can be reused 100's of times may be better for the environment (delivery people keep the plastic container and return it to Amazon). Amazon's fleet of 30 cargo jets for two-day shipping has a huge carbon footprint. The best thing for the environment is for people to get their butts off the couch and go to a store (efficiently) and purchase the item. Most stores receive their shipments by rail and/or truck which is most efficient with the least carbon footprint.
@@bigmuscles250lbs that's not true, ordering groceries online is 43% more efficient. as you said trucks are more efficient, thus having 1 truck drive to 100 houses is better than 100 cars driving to the store. the meal plan things are even better since they eliminate a lot of food waste and travel from farm > packaging facility > your house instead of farm > packaging facility > distribution facility > store > your house. but the 43% study was conducted by amazon so do with that what you will
Fr! Got a paper Amazon envelope the other day. It is possible. I wonder what kind of impact using those instead would create.
@@Penguiniel I'm not sure about that, the post office is still reusing plastic boxes from the 90s, and when they break they're melted down into a new box
@@haileywegman5659 they mentioned in the video that Amazon was moving towards waxed paper instead of plastic but the reporter kept acting like it was only the option of plastic or boxes moving forward. It was... Strange....
amazon does not care about recycling just saving $$$. that is fine but let's not pretend otherwise.
Not mutually exclusive.
I think they should at least explore the incorporation of hemp and bamboo in box making.
Bamboo is used in cardboard already. Although the harvesting is a little harder than more traditional materials, it can yield more material per physical area for growth per year.
Hemp yes. Bamboo no. Bamboo boxes are not environmentally friendly because bamboo takes 20+ years to grow to maturity . Hemp on the otherhand, we could grow a forest of weed trees in 6 months which will turn over possibly trillions in revenue and it's easily renewable
@@brandonhamilton8871 Bamboo is the fastest growing plant on the planet dude. It grows one millimeter per hour and gets 20 feet tall in one season. Hemp is valuable for it's long fibers, for rope and cloth but cardboard is much harder to make with hemp.
@@brandonhamilton8871 Your wrong Bamboo takes 2-3 years to grow the initial patch then 3-4 months for regrowth after cutting. Bamboo takes less time to grow to maturity than timber which can take decades.
@@brandonhamilton8871 I didn't realize it took that long with bamboo. Hemp can be grown in as little as 4 months, at least when you are growing it for buds, not fiber. Maybe bamboo could be bred to grow faster like pot was.
Lol after covid, I want to see 2020's actual numbers compared to the projected numbers @ 15:25
I worked at Amazon seven years ago for eight months and always wondered where they got they're shipping boxes.
I was an intern at WestRock last summer! One of my roles was entering daily Amazon orders.
Been working for Westrock/meadwestvaco/ mead for 25 years!
talking about boxes and Instagramable moments... oh no.. just no
This is the longest ad for boxes I have ever watched.
That’s what CNBC does. They are the church for stock cults in shares that don’t pay dividends. When the company doesn’t pay dividends, they need to advertise their stock, that’s where CNBC comes in...
Maybe in the future we will use some reusable boxes, ones that people return or are even picked up from homes at the next delivery and keep reusing the same ones over and over again.
I think you mean Homeless people.
Big basket does that in India
what do think cardboard is for?
@@SNORKYMEDIA : Urban farmers could use it.
The best part about these boxes is that they're completely biodegradable, so no matter how many boxes Amazon ships, they'll still be non-harmful to our environment.I am currently making a video on this very issue. Great job CNBC.
true
Bigger boxes need more space though which makes the shipping more inefficient. Wastes fuel -> harmful to environment
@@Kastinuk you being alive is much more than a box
@@Kastinuk I would say they are much better efficiency wise as you can fit more in it?
Biodegradable boxes does not equal being non-harmful to the environment. If they ship enough boxes to warrant clear cutting huge quantities of trees, that'd be pretty harmful.
I think Jeff B should be required to take back all shipping materials and reuse them.
Yes, it should.
In India, Flipkart has started the same last year. They are picking up the delivered product boxes/ plastic bags.
I appreciate the attempt made to protect environment.
"Electronics and dinnerware will still require boxes."
Tell Amazon that. They just shipped me a 6TB hard drive in a plastic mailer. 😩👎
Did it still work?
The design of some carriers using semi-flexible plastic allows for some cushioning. With those mounted in a corrugated box. About equal to a foam block in the same box.
Gah!
Before I retired this year I worked in a supply warehouse where we stocked their boxes and it took up many aisles from floor to ceiling. We shipped out trailer loads every week.
I work for post office. Amazon barely tapes their boxes. Many time content get lost. That one paper tape not holding heavy things.
@ Fun Time -- It could be that ONE of their suppliers of _THAT_ printed paper tape that is making tape with crummy adhesive... I say that because I usually have trouble ripping _that_ tape off the boxes by hand... then a couple of months ago, I bought a VERY lightweight seat cushion and someone at the post office had to use their red USPS tape to re-tape the box because Amazon's tape was falling off. (No lost anything, so I was good.)
You sir have taped your job together! Good Job
Companies don't care if their boxes are sealed correctly or not. They just want it on the truck and out of their building ASAP. I worked at a packaging company and was forced to work too fast to even close the boxes. They'd pop back open as soon as they were stacked onto the pallet, with wet tape still hanging everywhere. Nobody cared. It just had to get out the damn door.
@@Network126 : Interesting even though there are machines that tape boxes ( www.packagingtapeinc.com/box-taping-machine.html )
@@sunglassesgirl it’s a water based tape. if the warehouse personnel didn’t tape it good the tape will dry and come off. i usually just wet it with a water bottle to activate the glue and stick it on the box again.
great more plastic waste instead of recyclable cardboard because it cost more wow! clear example of how the world is gonna end.
If only there was a way to recycle plastic...
wjerame plastic is hard to recycle and expensive too which is why only 9% is recycled.
Plastic is not that bad for the environment. Could easily be recycled, and even if burned, its not worse than burning fowsil fuels.
JosefsensDK plastic is not easily recyclable it’s actually hard to recycle because it’s expensive to recycle. That’s why only 9% of plastic is recycled. Micro plastic is also in our food chain and water supply which should worry you as scientists don’t know how it’s affecting us due to it only being around for less than a century.
JosefsensDK so yes plastic is horrible
Ahhh Georgia Pacific, they also make my toilet paper
I love the sound it make when a heavy cardboard a3 size slaps on to flexing conveyor rollers it makes a fantastic noise
I work in corrugate design and the ecological issue is not with what Amazon uses to ship but the entire model of eCommerce over brick and mortar. It's great that some less harmful packaging is in Amazon's financial interest (Don't be fooled by their greenwashing) but fundamentally their system is shockingly more damaging than the norms of commerce. I'm not saying eCommerce should be outlawed, there are numerous reasons why it is important to many consumers and I go to amazon for certain things but the vast majority of products people buy on Amazon could (and should) be purchased in store when possible. USPS, Fedex, amazon, and most products you purchase online are considered single-parcel shipment which really should be a last ditch effort as far as distribution is concerned. Single parcel forces distributors to use massive amounts of packaging to ship each item because it will be thrown and dropped at every step on its way to you. It also puts more trucks on the road, making more stops, burning tons and tons of fuel. All of this while giving you a damaged product more frequently than any store.
I also resent this video for insinuating that amazon invented ship testing. There has been standardized testing used for over 50 years and as long as there has been major trade there has been some form of shipment testing. For years amazon has tried to sell themselves as the heroes, solving the problems they created.
Now it’s CNBC vs. Vox vs. Cheddar vs. AJ+ for CZcams documentaries.
if amazon stops using ridiculously large size boxes for their small items.... then maybe MAYBE their shipping costs wouldnt be so high. just saying amazon
Would you like your new smartphone shipped in a HDTV box?
[Yes] or [Yes]
A broken item will cost them more than a larger box
If you diversify your product portfolio, manufacturing and operation costs go up
They literally have teams of engineers on these kind of problems for years but I guess they should listen to you instead
You are probably a guy without the knowledge for this subject. Products in tight boxes have 2x chances to be broken or damaged fromcthe shipping process. It cost less to use bigger boxes then having to pay for the broken product and another one..
im sorry is no one focusing on how amazon has 10 million unique products!?
Economy of scale... Great things for everyone
I don't see how that's surprising. I mean it's Amazon
That's just the number of products that are eligible for one day delivery, they have a lot more products in total
Thay have like 150 million products
@Navroze Panthaky stealing? What are they stealing?
I work at ups and those arrows are giving me ptsd
At one point, I had a mountain of Amazon shipping boxes. Tried using some to mail for items I sold online, but still too many. I wish they could deliver the item, wait a few minutes while I open it, remove the items, and take back the box!
They dont have space, cut the tape on both flapped sides to make it flag again and stuff it in the recycling bin
Or just burn it easier than throwing them out
BoneCollector yeah that’s not going to happen
I get anxiety when it says my package is delivered, but I can’t find it on my porch and it is in the mailbox
😂
The Saudi princes and Kings of the world think they're so grand and powerful sitting on wealth passed on to them while ONE man singlehandedly built the world's richest company from scratch.
Now that, is impressive
Supposedly the amount of wealth those King's have make Besos' look like pocket change
Princes and Kings wealth is a lot more than just pure money. Most of Bezos’s wealth is Amazon’s stock, which could be vanished after 1 night if something terrible happen, same goes with many other richest people. Kings and Princes assets, in the other hands, often are in real estates and other physical properties, not to mention they also have massive authority power and other hidden. Their wealth is much more sustainable and concreted although the amount seems vastly lower than the top 10 richest people.
He worked for it, the princes and kings were just born
Another important aspect of why just relying on consumers to recycle can't work is, in my area we now have a VERY short list of things we're allowed to recycle. My area doesn't have great recycling infrastructure so we shipped most of it overseas, which we can no longer do. We want to recycle more, but we can't. We get charged for incorrect things in recycling as well.
In the Netherlands the biggest ecommerce company now ships big items in good boxes without boxes around then. They seal it with thin transparent plastic and then stick the shipping label on it.
7:42 peep the open box lol
No one:
CNBC: Who makes Amazon shipping boxes?
It should be a program specifically for this issue such as “Buy Back” maybe 5c per pound? Or something of that topic , Amazon will benefit since is the same box and plastic .... anyway just a thought.
Won't ever happen to boxes while durable are most definitely not reusable. I work in the pharmaceutical logistical industry and we send out packages insides a temperature controlled shipper inside of a corrugated box one time use when it comes back to us its practically unrecognizable on the outside.
you call this guy stupid, but in china, thats exactly how ecommerce companies are doing
Recyclable cardboard in bulk is now worth as much as scrap steel.
7:00 Dude's a packaging machine
Its 4:47 am, and I’m watching a video on boxes. This reminds me of that commercial spongebob was watching where the guy goes “i didnt know what to get ya, so i got you this box”
*Dunder Mufflin has entered the chat
Yes, the paper industry is growing, Dunder Mifflin in back in business.
The problem with the air pillows is that Amazon uses them to fill empty space in the box - not actually cushion the contents from vibration or impact. The same thing with their craft-paper filler. With either option, Amazon places your items in the bottom of the box, then just fills the empty space. They do nothing to protect your purchases.
Randy She Sometimes they don't even fill the space.
So true, I wonder if they are told to do that or they are suppose to put the item in the middle.
I’m a Ups Driver and from experience these boxes are not the best, they get damage so easy and the tape Amazon uses is the worst! They only put one strip of tape for any box or weight and half of the time I’m re taping it
The most amazing thing about this is #CNBC managed to make a 16 minute video about boxes without directly answering the question in the title.
I still don't know who makes Amazon's boxes.
@Doug SwampRat: that means you didn’t pay attention…
FYI, starting at 4:04
the answer to that is here 4:09
Must have fallen asleep at that point. Thanks.
Hilarious... Looking to "cut carbon emissions" by switching from renewable (tree) cardboard to non-renewable (oil) plastic bags. While the climate change people scream how we need to get off relying on oil. 🤣
My thoughts exactly. I throw those packages away every time since they don't go in a recycling bin. How is that good for the environment? Even if I have to throw a box away, that cardboard box will biodegrade relatively quickly. The plastic bag can can sit in a dump for up to 1000 years. If anything, we should be pushing for more paper. Also, let's not forget, trees clean the air.
The amount of space a box takes up whilst being transported is far greater than when plastic packaging is used. Therefore more products can be transported per trip leading to a reduction in carbon emissions due to transport of goods. I think this is what they meant anyway
They can switch to plant-based plastic. It doesn't have to be oil. The only thing keeping them from doing this, is money. But eventually that obstacle will be overcome.
@@zunairrana5932 what of the micro plastics in your body
@Zunair Rana: plastic packaging may be convenient for Amazon, but a customer’s burden for waste disposal.
Never knew a vid about boxes could be so interesting
What's really kinda interesting is this last summer I used all my Amazon boxes in my garden around my flower beds and such.... then a few months later where I put those boxes I got HUGE mushrooms!! It was a HUGE colony of morel mushrooms. Their boxes were contaminated with mushroom spores and my flower beds were a huge mess. Now all those boxes go in the recycling bin. What a waste!! I'd like to know why morel mushroom spores were all over them.
Yeah that’s what was on my mind every time I saw a Amazon video. “Damn the box manufacturing industry is booming”
How did I get to a place in my life where I’m watching a 16 min box documentary?
they tricked me into watching a video that is 15 minutes about boxes. Well done... not even mad
I'm glad the video mentioned the negative aspects of post-consumer flexible packaging. No matter how much lipstick you still have a pig. Most plastic packaging can be recycled but it isn't, that's the reality. As the video noted, over 90% of corrugated boxes are recycled. By the way, most new boxes already contain at least one third recycled paper. It's the only packaging material that keeps on giving.
Fellow kids, as a millennial I demand to be engaged with product placement on packaging. Minions are so Instagram-able. I am such a youth.
ups/fedex doesn't take care of your boxes when they deliver to your place..
1 time i have package inside my box inside is broken.. all things fall out..
1:29 I thought he was boutta say "death of rick and morty" I cant be alone
No one:
Literally no one:
CNBC: box business is up
Very low effort "joke"
That’s what I’m subscribed for, I work in cardboard plant
I clicked on this because I thought they would explain how Amazon always has the perfectly sized box for everything..
Computers
I frequently order from Amazon and I too asked myself this same question. the contents ALWAYS fit the box 100% perfectly + had plastic padding in it.
Honestly just make sure its enviromentally friendly and recyclable. Tho i do not want to continue cutting down our Canadian forests and replacing them with everygreen trees.
@10:30 “If millennials are going to be looking at it as an Instagramabble moment” another classic example of out of touch boomers
13:40* how can you be that out?
@@AnonymousUser77254 Next: _If they can't eat avocado toast, let them eat corrugated boxes_ 😂😂
Hahaha CZcams read in my mind. I was wondering that yesterday and today CNBC post this video.
3:45 I'm glad they took the pic the way they are left at customers doorstep (Upside down)
was wondering if anyone else noticed that too lol
This is a video I never knew I wanted to see but now that I see it I want it.
Lets replace cardboard which is biodegradable with plastic which never degrades! WOO HOO!
11:25 fake staged scene. none of the boxes have markings and the box the guy is handling is not taped on the bottom.
he's essentially holding an open box upside down...
Some say cardboard boxes provide the best tactical stealth out there.
Big Boss! 🐍
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I spent all kind of money on my cat for various beds which she would use for a few days or so and get tired of. Then one day I caught her sleeping on an Amazon pouch mailer (the kind lined on the inside with bubble wrap) that I had left out after I opened it. It is my cat's favorite bed! I replace it every few months if I get another Amazon delivery in the same pouch.
Great Video for my FYI. I am a project manager at Detroit Stoker Company and we supply Parts and Service to the Boiler Stokers in all those plants which produce the steam to make those boxes. Man how the world goes round!
Next, Amazon will ship predictive shipping speeds before you even ordered it.
1945: I wonder what is space
2019: I wonder who makes Amazon boxes
I was told that the boxes are purchased at Office Depot. :P
Why doesn't Amazon pick up the used Amazon boxes when they drop off packages. Then recycle them and make there own boxes.
“China certainly doesn’t have trees” ~ oh really now?
Not the type you’d need for paper
Lol I just ordered something 😂💀
All the workers do not look happy...
This is a lie: not long ago, I ordered from amazon 4 items that may not need packing. They would have fitted in one box. I got four big boxes with lots of bubble wrap, one per item...
I do not like online shopping, but we are forced to do so. Stores have less items than they used to. If you ask for something or for a different size, the salespeople are trained to answer: go online, there are more options online...
And then there is Walmart that sends you a huge box to put a smaller box in to package something that just needed a plastic envelope. lol.
My investing research: watch cnbc videos
Buy your packaging stock while you still can boys!
Can i unbox my stocks since their "packaged"?
Do you ever get the feeling that this "recyclable" business is more about somebody making money than actually doing anything meaningful about waste?
I haul paper rolls used to make these boxes, and sometimes finished boxes, so I am frequently at paper mills and box plants, and yes, recycling is real, and very important.
A lot of the paper mills on the west coast bring in nearly a many truck loads of cardboard bales from stores and recycling centers and such, as they ship out finished paper.
And the mills that make printing paper use incredibe amounts of all forms of recycled materials, because they need different types of fibers to make different grades of paper, and so they have streams of trucks bringing the different materials in, as well as giant piles of wood chips to make the new materials.
I know that one mill that I am at frequently had to shut one of their production lines down because they couldn't get enough good quality recycled paper to keep it running.
I feel like Amazon should have a box/mailer return day where they take back undamaged boxes
I ordered a 1ft cable from amazon and it came in an A3 size inflated plastic packaging and then inside that was the other company’s packaging
The story of how two brothers - and five other men - parlayed a small business loan into a thriving paper goods concern is a long and interesting one. And here it is...
At 1:52 he did not stop lol
I googled if amazon plastic mailers are recyclable and this video became next on the autoplay. Thanks big brother Google.
Reusable totes would be so much better.
All hail *The United States of Amazon*
Final Fantasy 7 reference?
Don't Subscribe To This Channel hehe yup 💪🏽
These kinds of videos make me feel smart for some reason
These skids of cardboard took up a ton of space in our warehouse and every order we got the person placing the orders was always in panic mode for delivery 😮