Amazon destroying millions of items of unsold stock in one of its UK warehouses every year – ITV News

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(ITV.com) Online giant Amazon is destroying millions of items of unsold stock every year, products that are often new and unused, ITV News can reveal.

Footage gathered by ITV News shows waste on an astonishing level.

Undercover filming from inside Amazon’s Dunfermline warehouse reveals the sheer scale of the waste: Smart TVs, laptops, drones, hairdryers, top of the range headphones, computer drives, books galore, thousands of sealed face masks – all sorted into boxes marked “destroy”.

Watch footage showing the ‘destruction zone’ in Amazon’s Dunfermline warehouse where millions of unsold items are destroyed every year