The scandal around the company is gaining strength in the UK Amazon… Journalists ITV News published a video made at one of the warehouses of the IT giant in the Scottish city of Dunfermline. It turned out that every year Amazon destroys millions of products that customers have returned or failed to sell.
Among the “garbage” there are serviceable smartphones, televisions and other equipment (including expensive products Apple), as well as food, jewelry, and even medical masks. Items that can be donated to charity are simply scrapped. Amazon is publicly committed to the environment and reducing its carbon footprint.
Workers at the facility have to destroy about 130,000-200,000 items a week, but only 30,000 items are donated by Amazon to charity. In total, there are 24 such warehouses in the UK. However, the practice of recycling unsold goods is widespread throughout the world.
“50% of all goods are unopened and are in shrink wrap. The other half has been returned and is in good condition,” one of the ex-warehouse employees said on condition of anonymity.
Amazon controls a huge logistics network, which is why other companies use its warehouses to store products. But the longer the goods remain unsold, the higher the cost of storage becomes. As a result, the cargo is easier to destroy.
Exclusive: Amazon is destroying millions of items of unsold stock in one of its UK warehouses every year, an ITV News investigation has uncovered.
Many of the products – including smart TVs and laptops – are often new and unused. https://t.co/OJjexB0YQd#AmazonWaste pic.twitter.com/UR7XrLWvIM
– ITV News (@itvnews) June 21, 2023
UK PM shocked by ITV News Boris Johnson and the Minister of Entrepreneurship, Energy and Industrial Strategy Quasi Quartengu. Now they have to understand the situation and understand what volumes of garbage remain in the country.
Amazon has previously been criticized for not having time for lower-level employees to go to the toilet. In response, bots appeared on social networks that praised the campaign using the same type of phrases.
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