anna_lillith 🇺🇦🌱🐖

AMAZON DESTROYS UNSOLD PRODUCTS BY THE MILLIONS

TVs, laptops, household items, books and even face masks still sealed in their original #packaging -- all like-new products that #Amazon directs its #warehouses to destroy rather than #reuse or #redistribute. One ex-employee says they were told their "target" was to destroy over 100,000 items every week.

https://www.itv.com/news/2021-06-21/amazon-destroying-millions-of-items-of-unsold-stock-in-one-of-its-uk-warehouses-every-year-itv-news-investigation-finds

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Oct 20, 2023 at 11:48pmWeb
Show threadanna_lillith 🇺🇦🌱🐖Oct 20, 2023

But maybe we're being too hard on Amazon. Maybe its leadership doesn't know that the world's #WasteCrisis has resulted in such horrors as the #GreatPacificGarbagePatch (a mass of garbage soup in the #PacificOcean twice the size of Texas), not to mention overflowing #landfills and trash-ridden open spaces such as parks and beaches.

https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/great-pacific-garbage-patch/

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Great Pacific Garbage Patch

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a collection of marine debris in the North Pacific. Marine debris is litter that ends up in the ocean, seas, and other large bodies of water.

Show threadanna_lillith 🇺🇦🌱🐖Oct 20, 2023

Maybe the retail giant isn't aware that less than 10% of the #plastic that's ever been thrown out has successfully been recycled. Or that toxic #ElectronicWaste has become the world's fastest-growing stream of municipal solid waste.

I'm kidding. Any company -- especially one that claims to prioritize #sustainability -- should know the myriad threats that our ever-growing waste problem poses to our #communities, our #environment and our #health.

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https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvz7am/happy-prime-day-amazon-is-destroying-millions-of-products-a-year

Happy Prime Day, Amazon Is Destroying Millions of Products a Year

An investigation into a single UK fulfillment center revealed that they were destroying over 100,000 products a week.

Show threadanna_lillith 🇺🇦🌱🐖Oct 20, 2023

And throwing out millions of perfectly usable or repairable #products every year is certainly not helping.

This astounding practice had gone largely unnoticed until former employees at the #warehouses came forward and revealed what they had seen.

"I used to gasp. There's no rhyme or reason to what gets destroyed. ...

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Show threadanna_lillith 🇺🇦🌱🐖Oct 20, 2023

Overall, 50% of all items are unopened and still in their shrink wrap. The other half are returns and in good condition. Staff have just become numb to what they are being asked to do."

Most of us were already aware of the harm our #ThrowawayCulture does to us and our #planet -- but this is a whole new level of unnecessary #waste, and it needs to stop.

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https://www.itv.com/news/2021-06-21/amazon-destroying-millions-of-items-of-unsold-stock-in-one-of-its-uk-warehouses-every-year-itv-news-investigation-finds

Show threadanna_lillith 🇺🇦🌱🐖Oct 20, 2023

#Amazon needs to know that we won't stand by while it destroys and wastes usable products by the millions. Send your message to Amazon CEO #AndyJassy today.

Thank you,

Faye Park
President U.S. PIRG

#PlasticKills #PlasticPollution

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https://uspirg.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=45432&supporter_KEY=6230117&uid=6e4205d258b4eaa27d3fd92bbbc27089&utm_source=salsa

Tell Amazon: Stop destroying returned and unsold products

Add your name to stand up to Amazon's absurd, destructive waste practices.

Show threadGed|NetDec 29, 2023

@anna_lillith

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Show threadAI6YR BenOct 20, 2023
@anna_lillith John Steinbeck: "The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and this is the saddest, bitterest thing of all. Carloads of oranges dumped on the ground. The people came for miles to take the fruit, but this could not be. How would they buy oranges at twenty cents a dozen if they could drive out and pick them up? And men with hoses squirt kerosene on the oranges, and they are angry at the crime, angry at the people who have come to take the fruit....
Show threadAI6YR BenOct 20, 2023
@anna_lillith "A million people hungry, needing the fruit- and kerosene sprayed over the golden mountains. And the smell of rot fills the country. Burn coffee for fuel in the ships. Burn corn to keep warm, it makes a hot fire. Dump potatoes in the rivers and place guards along the banks to keep the hungry people from fishing them out. Slaughter the pigs and bury them, and let the putrescence drip down into the earth.""
Show threadLil Meow MeowOct 21, 2023

@anna_lillith

That's from 2021, and it still makes my blood boil.

Show threadGabriel PettierOct 21, 2023
@lil_meow_meow @anna_lillith yeah, makes me wonder if anything changed since, such reporting should force them to look for solutions or trigger political action forcing them to.