Plastic pollution is piling up as more people order goods online during the coronavirus pandemic. A Sag Harbor woman wants Amazon to change that.

Nicole Delma says there should be an option for customers to say they do not want plastic when ordering online.

"I became overly frustrated by the amount of plastic that I was receiving with my shipments from Amazon," Delma says.

Delma started an online petition calling on Amazon to give shoppers an option whether or not they want plastic used in their packages.

The petition started in October and Delma says the number of people who signed it skyrocketed during New York PAUSE.

"As someone that does try to shop locally, we didn't have those options, the stores were shut down or the shelves were completely cleared out of food. So we relied on Amazon for food and that would show up and there was more plastic in my house," she says.

Delma says there are safer alternatives to plastic, like a paper-honeycomb bubble wrap.

"It's effective on glass and other breakable items, and we could be using this today," says Delma.

Matt Littlejohn with the ocean conservation group Oceana says his organization conducted an international survey in the U.S., U.K. and Canada. Surveyors asked more than 5,000 Amazon customers about the plastics in their packages.

"87% think that Amazon and other major online retailers need to do something about plastic," says Littlejohn.

So far, more than half a million people have signed the plastic-free petition.

Littlejohn and Delma both say they've heard back from Amazon that the company is not committed to going plastic-free just yet. But Delma says it can be done.

"We don't need to use plastic," she says.

A spokesperson for Amazon told News 12 the company is working to double the amount of recyclable paper materials in packages in place of plastic.