Amazon bins 130000 products a week from one distribution center alone.

The problem is the cost of labor. Getting people to do anything is so expensive that it's not scaleable. It's also the sellers who ultimately decide to destroy not Amazon. Amazon just provide the rope for the world to hang itself with.

What I'd do is I'd get the G7 to tell Amazon to start a recycling business with all that amazon profit.

When the mega high tech Amazon recycling is up and running, donate the high tech recycling centers to all nations which have an Amazon warehouse/distribution center.

If worst comes to worst you'd need a "bin tax" or something like that. I'm sure mr money bags will pay attention once it costs money to bin things.
 
arknor said:
not from the store though.

it's supposed to be theft if someone steals from your rubbish too, even if the item was discarded.

doubt police care though
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They don't even seem to care when it's taken from your house, they aren't going to care about rubbish.
 
Raymond Lin said:
Start with the question in Google "Best X in 2021" and then the same in YouTube.

Get a short list, look for reviews for those on the shortlist.

Pick one.
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Still not that easy. Last time I did that a lot of the "best in 2021 UK" searches resulted in sites which list their top 10 based on the top 10 best reviewed products on Amazon. Hardly a great start!
 
Owned by the richest man in the world, pays staff peanuts and treats them like ****, throws millions worth of stuff in the bin.

Burn the place down*

*Symbolicly
 
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When it's cheaper to throw stock away than sell it, something is very broken.

The world is drowning in rubbish. When you are making new products which go straight to landfill you just have to laugh at the absurdness of it all.

The system should never be allowed to make it an option. Third party sellers should be forced to take it back, then hit them with a large tax if they want to throw it away. It might just stop people making tat to sell.
 
TheOracle said:
When it's cheaper to throw stock away than sell it, something is very broken.

The world is drowning in rubbish. When you are making new products which go straight to landfill you just have to laugh at the absurdness of it all.

The system should never be allowed to make it an option. Third party sellers should be forced to take it back, then hit them with a large tax if they want to throw it away. It might just stop people making tat to sell.
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Amazon claim it isn't actually being wasted though, and there isn't any evidence of the landfill theory.
 
I'm amazed they do this. I know a guy who used to have a contract to buy damaged/returned goods from Homebase and B&Q. He'd buy them by the container load and then sell them on but obviously with no association with them. He made good money. Sometimes the containers were gold mines, others times just rubbish. Why the hell don't Amazon do something similar. Or even better give it all to charities to sell.
 
There's quite a few liquidators round here that sell pallets of amazon, lowes, homedepot returns. The "Good" pallets are around $1000. Facebook market place is full of Dewalt tools from those pallets.
 
StriderX said:
The inevitable cost of cheap manufacturing, if folks want it to stop then they have to pay for better engineered products and less disposable trash. Seriously what ever happened to the machines that would last literal decades? I get that digital boondoggles on stuff makes them naturally more likely to break down, but jesus christ it feel's like planned obsolescence is in full force now.
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I always remember a colleague at work telling me she was getting a new washing machine and tumble dryer in black to match her new kitchen. There was nothing wrong with her existing appliances other than being the wrong colour.
 
TheOracle said:
When it's cheaper to throw stock away than sell it, something is very broken.

The world is drowning in rubbish. When you are making new products which go straight to landfill you just have to laugh at the absurdness of it all.

The system should never be allowed to make it an option. Third party sellers should be forced to take it back, then hit them with a large tax if they want to throw it away. It might just stop people making tat to sell.
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It's almost like creating laws that enforce mandatory, no questions asked, free returns on all purchases has unintended consequences.

Why should the vendor be forced to absorb these costs, which then get pushed onto all customers?
 
TheOracle said:
When it's cheaper to throw stock away than sell it, something is very broken.

The world is drowning in rubbish. When you are making new products which go straight to landfill you just have to laugh at the absurdness of it all.
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Totally agree. The economy is very broken.
 
Dolph said:
It's almost like creating laws that enforce mandatory, no questions asked, free returns on all purchases has unintended consequences.

Why should the vendor be forced to absorb these costs, which then get pushed onto all customers?
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I actually like how gymshark handle their returns. They are free, but you have to take it to your local asdas. If the item price goes up to cover the costs, that's just simple business. It's probably more efficient when you think about it, a small increase on all stock items to cover the % of returns you'd expect to get back.

You could argue though that if someone had to pay £3.99 for a return they'd either keep it, or think twice about buying it in the first place.

We do live in a weird world though......I think a lot of people buy stuff they don't really need due to boredom and/or to make themselves feel better. How many people buy new phones every year just because they think they need an 11mp camera rather than a 10mp one ;-)

That doesn't excuse throwing away perfectly good stuff (if what ITV are saying is true).
 
My first thought was for amazon to sell everthing that would go to waste for cost of delivery, but then this would drive prices of everything to rock bottom.

It's no different to Rolex, Omega, Breitling and other watch companies crushing thousands of unsold watches each year. If they sold them for less and less they would go down in value from thousands, to hundreds to next to nothing
 
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