Title:
Where do your online shopping returns end up? In the bin, new research finds
Published:
Lund University, 20 January 2023
From the news article:
For e-commerce companies, it is cheaper to throw away returned items rather than selling them again. In a new study, researchers at Lund University in Sweden interviewed members of the textile and electronics industries in Europe, hoping to better understand a problem that is snowballing, yet has been the subject of little research.
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