Mo News Inside Amazon: A New Way to Build, Ship, and Deliver
Oct 10, 2025
Daniel Mallory, Vice President of Global Realty at Amazon, delves into the company's groundbreaking sustainability efforts, highlighting their mass timber delivery center in Elkhart, Indiana. He explains the environmental benefits of using mass timber over traditional materials like steel and concrete. Small customer choices, like combining shipments, can result in significant emissions reductions. Mallory also discusses Amazon's 40+ eco-friendly strategies, including electric vehicles and packaging innovations, aiming for a net-zero carbon footprint by 2040.
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Sustainability Equals Customer Service
- Amazon treats sustainability and customer service as one integrated goal when selecting sites and designing facilities.
- The Elkhart site is a lab to test scalable carbon-reducing strategies across the company.
Why Mass Timber Lowers Carbon
- Mass timber uses cross-laminated wood panels as structural elements instead of steel or concrete.
- Amazon uses mass timber for bracing, cladding, and support to lower embodied carbon.
Choose Certified Renewable Materials
- Source timber from certified sustainable forestry to ensure reforestation and renewability.
- Prefer renewable materials over finite resources like iron ore to reduce extraction emissions.