Lund University, Sweden - Where do your online shopping returns end up? In the bin, new research finds

Title:

Where do your online shopping returns end up? In the bin, new research finds

 

Published:

Lund University, 20 January 2023

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/where-do-your-online-shopping-returns-end-bin-new-research-finds

 

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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Authors:

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