diff --git a/opentelemetry-api/Cargo.toml b/opentelemetry-api/Cargo.toml
index 76deaf3fa3..bbed1957da 100644
--- a/opentelemetry-api/Cargo.toml
+++ b/opentelemetry-api/Cargo.toml
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ futures-channel = "0.3"
 futures-util = { version = "0.3", default-features = false, features = ["std", "sink"] }
 indexmap = "=1.8"
 once_cell = "1.12.0"
-pin-project = { version = "1.0.2", optional = true }
+pin-project-lite = { version = "0.2.9", optional = true }
 thiserror = "1"
 tokio-stream = { version = "0.1", optional = true }
 
@@ -23,6 +23,6 @@ js-sys = "0.3"
 
 [features]
 default = ["trace"]
-trace = ["pin-project"]
+trace = ["pin-project-lite"]
 metrics = ["fnv"]
 testing = ["trace"]
diff --git a/opentelemetry-api/src/trace/context.rs b/opentelemetry-api/src/trace/context.rs
index 9d8f047f21..60aad31fdd 100644
--- a/opentelemetry-api/src/trace/context.rs
+++ b/opentelemetry-api/src/trace/context.rs
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ use crate::{
 };
 use futures_util::{sink::Sink, stream::Stream};
 use once_cell::sync::Lazy;
-use pin_project::pin_project;
+use pin_project_lite::pin_project;
 use std::{
     borrow::Cow,
     error::Error,
@@ -351,13 +351,14 @@ where
     f(Context::current().span())
 }
 
-/// A future, stream, or sink that has an associated context.
-#[pin_project]
-#[derive(Clone, Debug)]
-pub struct WithContext<T> {
-    #[pin]
-    inner: T,
-    otel_cx: Context,
+pin_project! {
+    /// A future, stream, or sink that has an associated context.
+    #[derive(Clone, Debug)]
+    pub struct WithContext<T> {
+        #[pin]
+        inner: T,
+        otel_cx: Context,
+    }
 }
 
 impl<T: Sized> FutureExt for T {}
diff --git a/opentelemetry-dynatrace/Cargo.toml b/opentelemetry-dynatrace/Cargo.toml
index a5b122b408..4a7c9cb307 100644
--- a/opentelemetry-dynatrace/Cargo.toml
+++ b/opentelemetry-dynatrace/Cargo.toml
@@ -42,7 +42,6 @@ wasm = [
     "futures-util",
     "getrandom/js",
     "js-sys",
-    "pin-project",
     "wasm-bindgen",
     "wasm-bindgen-futures",
     "web-sys",
@@ -59,7 +58,6 @@ isahc = { version = "1.4", default-features = false, optional = true }
 js-sys = { version = "0.3.5", optional = true }
 opentelemetry = { version = "0.17", path = "../opentelemetry", default-features = false }
 opentelemetry-http = { version = "0.6", path = "../opentelemetry-http", default-features = false }
-pin-project = { version = "1.0", optional = true }
 reqwest = { version = "0.11", default-features = false, optional = true }
 surf = { version = "2.0", default-features = false, optional = true }
 thiserror = "1.0"
diff --git a/opentelemetry-jaeger/Cargo.toml b/opentelemetry-jaeger/Cargo.toml
index e80ae7be60..787dd9730f 100644
--- a/opentelemetry-jaeger/Cargo.toml
+++ b/opentelemetry-jaeger/Cargo.toml
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ once_cell = "1.12"
 opentelemetry = { version = "0.17", default-features = false, features = ["trace"], path = "../opentelemetry" }
 opentelemetry-http = { version = "0.6", path = "../opentelemetry-http", optional = true }
 opentelemetry-semantic-conventions = { version = "0.9", path = "../opentelemetry-semantic-conventions" }
-pin-project = { version = "1.0", optional = true }
+pin-project-lite = { version = "0.2.9", optional = true }
 reqwest = { version = "0.11", default-features = false, optional = true }
 surf = { version = "2.0", optional = true }
 thiserror = "1.0"
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ wasm_collector_client = [
     "futures-util",
     "http",
     "js-sys",
-    "pin-project",
+    "pin-project-lite",
     "wasm-bindgen",
     "wasm-bindgen-futures",
     "web-sys",
diff --git a/opentelemetry-jaeger/src/exporter/collector.rs b/opentelemetry-jaeger/src/exporter/collector.rs
index 3c483d81a3..9e10a42f46 100644
--- a/opentelemetry-jaeger/src/exporter/collector.rs
+++ b/opentelemetry-jaeger/src/exporter/collector.rs
@@ -77,6 +77,7 @@ mod wasm_collector_client {
     use futures_util::future;
     use http::Uri;
     use js_sys::Uint8Array;
+    use pin_project_lite::pin_project;
     use std::future::Future;
     use std::io::{self, Cursor};
     use std::pin::Pin;
@@ -132,7 +133,7 @@ mod wasm_collector_client {
         {
             self.build_request(batch)
                 .map(post_request)
-                .map(|fut| future::Either::Left(SubmitBatchFuture(fut)))
+                .map(|fut| future::Either::Left(SubmitBatchFuture { fut }))
                 .unwrap_or_else(|e| future::Either::Right(future::err(e)))
         }
 
@@ -199,19 +200,22 @@ mod wasm_collector_client {
         Ok(jaeger::BatchSubmitResponse { ok: true })
     }
 
-    /// Wrapper of web fetch API future marked as Send.
-    ///
-    /// At the moment, the web APIs are single threaded. Since all opentelemetry futures are
-    /// required to be Send, we mark this future as Send.
-    #[pin_project::pin_project]
-    struct SubmitBatchFuture<F>(#[pin] F);
+    pin_project! {
+        /// Wrapper of web fetch API future marked as Send.
+        ///
+        /// At the moment, the web APIs are single threaded. Since all opentelemetry futures are
+        /// required to be Send, we mark this future as Send.
+        struct SubmitBatchFuture<F> {
+            #[pin] fut: F
+        }
+    }
 
     unsafe impl<F> Send for SubmitBatchFuture<F> {}
 
     impl<F: Future> Future for SubmitBatchFuture<F> {
         type Output = F::Output;
         fn poll(self: Pin<&mut Self>, cx: &mut Context<'_>) -> Poll<Self::Output> {
-            self.project().0.poll(cx)
+            self.project().fut.poll(cx)
         }
     }
 
diff --git a/opentelemetry-sdk/Cargo.toml b/opentelemetry-sdk/Cargo.toml
index b2e0c31eb6..7f4fcfa758 100644
--- a/opentelemetry-sdk/Cargo.toml
+++ b/opentelemetry-sdk/Cargo.toml
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@ futures-executor = "0.3"
 futures-util = { version = "0.3.17", default-features = false, features = ["std", "sink", "async-await-macro"] }
 once_cell = "1.10"
 percent-encoding = { version = "2.0", optional = true }
-pin-project = { version = "1.0.2", optional = true }
 rand = { version = "0.8", default-features = false, features = ["std", "std_rng"], optional = true }
 serde = { version = "1.0", features = ["derive", "rc"], optional = true }
 serde_json = { version = "1", optional = true }
@@ -38,7 +37,7 @@ rand_distr = "0.4.0"
 
 [features]
 default = ["trace"]
-trace = ["opentelemetry-api/trace", "crossbeam-channel", "rand", "pin-project", "async-trait", "percent-encoding"]
+trace = ["opentelemetry-api/trace", "crossbeam-channel", "rand", "async-trait", "percent-encoding"]
 jaeger_remote_sampler = ["trace", "opentelemetry-http", "http", "serde", "serde_json", "url"]
 metrics = ["opentelemetry-api/metrics", "dashmap", "fnv"]
 testing = ["opentelemetry-api/testing", "trace", "metrics", "rt-async-std", "rt-tokio", "rt-tokio-current-thread", "tokio/macros", "tokio/rt-multi-thread"]