Among the largest e-commerce and tech companies, Amazon's website generated the most pollution per page view, at 400,000 kilograms of carbon dioxide equivalent per month. Taco Bell ranked second, with 107,150 kilograms CO2e. The ranking included other notable e-commerce platforms like target, eBay, Walmart, and Etsy.
Companies' websites producing most CO2 per month (in kg of CO2e)
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