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21 Jun, 6 tweets, 4 min read
Exclusive: Amazon is destroying millions of items of unsold stock in one of its UK warehouses every year, an ITV News investigation has uncovered.

Many of the products - including smart TVs and laptops - are often new and unused.

itv.com/news/2021-06-2…

#AmazonWaste
A former Amazon employee secretly filmed the 'destruction zone' at the company's Dunfermline warehouse where unwanted goods are marked 'destroy'.

A leaked document showed more than 124,000 items marked as 'destroy' in just a week.

Watch: itv.com/news/2021-06-2…

#AmazonWaste
ITV News followed one of the lorries loaded with containers marked 'electrical destroy' from the Dunfermline warehouse to a waste recycling centre.

We filmed the pallets piled with unwanted goods being unloaded at the site.

#AmazonWaste
Amazon's UK boss John Boumphrey told ITV News just six weeks ago - before he knew of our investigation - the amount of unwanted stock that was destroyed was “extremely small".

itv.com/news/2021-06-2…

#AmazonWaste
Read our full #AmazonWaste investigation: itv.com/news/2021-06-2…

And the inside story of how we uncovered the scale of items being destroyed itv.com/news/2021-06-1…
"An indictment of a consumerist society, if it's as you say, we will look into it"

Boris Johnson responds to an ITV News investigation that’s found Amazon is destroying millions of items of unsold stock in one of its UK warehouses every year.

itv.com/news/2021-06-2…

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