November 27, 2024 14:41

Italy’s minister of environment and energy security, Gilberto Pichetto Fratin, recently visited Amazon’s Operations Innovation Lab in Vercelli, northern Italy, where the company is optimizing packaging solutions for e-commerce to enhance environmental sustainability and economic efficiency.

Research initiatives range from automated packaging equipment to bio-based shopping bags developed in collaboration with Novamont, the producer of Mater-Bi-branded bioplastics. The first experimental applications of these bio-shopper bags are being tested with Amazon Fresh grocery orders in Valencia, Spain.