According to Greenpeace, Amazon continues to destroy new goods

According to the environmental organization Greenpeace, the online giant Amazon is still destroying products that are as good as new: At the Winsen location in Lower Saxony, originally packaged goods are pre-sorted for destruction at eight workplaces, reported Greenpeace. This was shown by film recordings by a Greenpeace researcher who worked for several weeks as an employee in the Amazon logistics center in Winsen. Amazon calls these jobs "Destroy" stations. The group "decidedly rejected these allegations". At this location alone, the group disposed of at least one truckload of unsold goods every week, from T-shirts to books and electrical goods, Greenpeace reported. The environmental organization criticized that this was happening despite the fact that a law against this form of waste of resources came into force last year. The so-called duty of care is intended to prevent intact goods from being destroyed. But so far the duty of care has neither been implemented nor monitored by the authorities. Amazon said the group was working on not depositing any products at all. "Only when we have no other option do we give articles for recycling or energy recovery - or as the very last option - for landfill", it says in a statement that is also available on ntv.de. There are few products, the number is in the "per mille range". The group also announced that there was "no process for cutting up fashion items before handing them over to a disposal company". At the same time there were "no plans to introduce such a system". For a "test run with a new partner in Winsen", Amazon provided "one-time unusable goods". Since then, all the materials provided have been processed into new goods, the company said. "Amazon relies solely on fast sales and therefore considers the space on the shelf to be more important than the product in it - a waste of resources that is harmful to the climate," criticized Greenpeace consumer expert Viola Wohlgemuth. The group took advantage of the fact that there is currently no legal ordinance on duty of care, which is why no penalties are imposed.