How AI Is Helping Amazon Save Half A Million Tons Of Packaging Per Year [Forbes]
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Amazon is using AI to cut the amount of packaging materials it uses. A mazon ships 20 million packages a day in 19 countries, requiring an astronomical amount of paper, cardboard and plastic packaging. Figuring out how to pack all those items efficiently is good for the environment and for its own profits. So in 2019, Amazon AMZN launched its own proprietary AI model to reduce packaging waste. The result: five years later, it's helping to save at least 500,000 tons of packaging a year, according to company data. That's roughly equivalent to the weight of 7,750 Boeing 737 airplanes. “This allows us to make these decisions at scale,” Kayla Fenton, a senior manager on Amazon's packaging innovation team, told Forbes. “It's definitely an example where sustainability and business can be nicely aligned.” To handle the volume, Amazon researchers built the AI model, which it calls the Package Decision Engine, to predict the most efficient packaging choice – making sure that a set of
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