Is Amazon Filling Our Landfills? | Eastern NC Now

    Is Amazon, and other retailers, filling up our landfills with "returned" items? The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation investigated and found that to be the case. There is nothing to say that the practice is confined to Canada. Here's the story:

    Marketplace tracked items such as a backpack, which was tossed in the garbage

    It's safe to say that online shoppers like the promise of easy — and even better, free — returns. But it may surprise consumers to learn what can actually happen to all those unwanted items.

    A Marketplace investigation into Amazon Canada has found that perfectly good items are being liquidated by the truckload — and even destroyed or sent to landfill. Experts say hundreds of thousands of returns don't end up back on the e-commerce giant's website for resale, as customers might think.

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    Read the full article HERE on CBC.com