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Amazon: the shittiest, most ghastly company on earth

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Raj:

--- Quote from: voltsandjolts on June 28, 2021, 11:32:37 am ---Industrial scale manufacturing has always been bad news for the environment, because all products are put there at the end of their useful life. In more or less damaging ways. My mind boggles just at the volume of cleaning chemicals that go down the drain and straight out to local water courses or rivers. Every supermarket on the planet has shelves full of chemicals labelled damaging to aquatic life, and that's exactly where it ends up!

Anyway, I digress.

Amazon is simply another player, helping us along our fast track to environmental destruction.
On the plus side, at least some folks are getting rich along the way :-\

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Reminds me of a tv show, with a person yelling something along the lines of, "these chemicals are messing up with frog's brains"   :-DD.  ;)

GlennSprigg:

--- Quote from: richnormand on June 23, 2021, 07:23:50 pm ---@eti
You might be interested in those then:



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Yep!!  I saw those videos just the other day.  They embedded Tracking Devices in a lot of RETURNS, to see where
they went. Most ended up in Destruction warehouses, as it's cheaper than bothering to process the stuff!!!
Some people have the right idea.... buy it bulk & next to nothing, and re-sell it!!!

james_s:
I refuse to do business with any company I find out is destroying perfectly good stuff just to keep it out of the hands of someone else. They really ought to tax that heavily to incentivize selling or donating anything usable to charity. Anything other than turning it into landfill. The cost we pay for goods does not cover the true cost to the environment.

T3sl4co1l:
Guess you'll starve then.  Supermarkets do the same thing...  At least there's a chance they mark down or donate old items?

Tim

Cerebus:

--- Quote from: Ed.Kloonk on June 23, 2021, 02:52:32 am ---
--- Quote from: eti on June 23, 2021, 12:31:07 am ---https://youtu.be/mxqz2g05MTI

 >:( :palm: |O

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I wonder how much of this can be taken seriously, though, when you look at who funded this hit piece and their tendency to exaggerate, just a little bit.  ;)

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So who do you think "funded this hit piece"? ITV News is an independent news organisation providing news to a number of TV companies, they don't even have the moral hazard of having advertisers for customers like the TV companies themselves, or newspapers or magazines for that matter.

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