Tag: consumerism
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Why Do Stores Throw Away So Many Perfectly Good Products? I Went Dumpster Diving to Find Out
Indeed, that might be an understatement. It’s challenging to nail with precision just how much retail waste is generated globally. The supply-chain-management company Blue Yonder estimates that an unfathomable 3.5 billion products are returned in the US every year, and 9.8 billion pounds of returned products end up in the landfill. The problem is massive.…