If at first it doesn't sell...

 

Reread or Recycle!   (Photo by Johannes Jansen) 

Try, try again.  And if that doesn’t work, give, give away.

But that’s not necessarily what Amazon is doing.  An undercover investigation of its Scotland warehouse revealed that “millions of unsold products” are being destroyed each year.  These include such educational items as books and laptops.  And such lifesaving ones as thousands of Covid masks.

This is taking our throwaway society to new depths.  It’s a vulgar extension of the well-worn adage: If I can’t have it, then nobody can.  But hope may be on the horizon.  A company spokesperson was quoted as saying, “We are working toward a goal of zero product disposal…”  And we reply, “The sooner the better.”

Resources

https://nypost.com/2021/06/22/amazon-warehouse-destroys-130k-unsold-items-per-week-report/

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