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Same-day delivery is most often our lowest carbon option: Amazon’s sustainability head Kara Hurst

Same-day delivery is most often our lowest carbon option: Amazon’s sustainability head Kara Hurst

Kara Hurst, global vice president for sustainability, Amazon; image credit: Special Arrangement

Synopsis

In a free-wheeling interview, Kara Hurst, global vice-president for sustainability at Amazon, talks about how the e-commerce major is minimising its carbon footprint through sustainable packaging and elimination of single-use plastic, waste minimisation, faster delivery, and more. Edited excerpts.

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Kara Hurst has been in the sustainability profession for three decades, with the last nine years as global vice president for sustainability at Amazon. In a free-wheeling interaction, Hurst tells ET Prime that the younger generation cares a lot about sustainability. “They want to see this as part of how a company operates, how products are produced. And there are cases in which they may be willing to pay a little more in general,” she says.

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