BuyBetter Extra: Making the Most of Amazon Prime Big Deals Day

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While not as much of an occasion as Prime Day, Amazon also offers Prime Members something called Big Deals Day, when they discount lots of goods ahead of the main holiday shopping rush.

To make your Amazon shopping a bit greener, look for the company’s Climate Pledge Friendly label. This appears under products that meet certain criteria, such as being Environmental Working Group Verified, Fair Trade Certified, or Carbon Neutral Certified.

Click to Shop Climate Pledge Friendly Products on Amazon.

Read about Amazon’s Climate Pledge Friendly certifications here.

Photo courtesy of Amazon.com

You can make a difference by signing on to the customer service portal to request that Amazon send you items using paper packaging and paper tape. (Follow our link, click Help → Help with Something Else → I Need More Help.) It all takes less than five minutes. I noticed a difference in the type of packaging I received within a week.

Of course, it’s important to recycle those paper envelopes and cardboard packages. One reader asked our Dear Dot, “Must I remove packing tape and labels before recycling Amazon boxes?” Find the answer here.

Happy shopping.
–Elizabeth Weinstein, Marketplace Editor.

Want to get in touch? I’d love to hear from you. Tell me about your favorite sustainable products or anything else that’s on your mind — email marketplace@bluedotliving.com. I’ll see you again in two weeks.

–Elizabeth

Elizabeth Weinstein, Bluedot’s Marketplace Editor, lives in Manhattan with her husband; her papillon, Finley; and her cats, SanDeE* and Modell. When she’s not asking the folks at Bloomingdale’s and Nordstrom to try on all of their sustainable sneakers in a size 9½, she can be found at the Union Square Greenmarket or gardening on her rooftop terrace.

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