[ohgodplsno]

> First of all, "130K" is a meaningless number except as a percentage of items sold/returned.

No, it's not. 130k of _anything_ is a stupidly high amount. It may be 0.1% of items sold, it's still 130 000 perfectly good items destroyed. In many countries, supermarkets are obligated by law to give away unsold food as long as it is not perished. The exact same thing should happen to Amazon.

[pera]

I'm not sure why you are being downvoted: 130k is a lot, specially when you consider this is just one warehouse in the UK. Extrapolate this number (including other retailers) and we might be talking about millions of products being destroyed daily on this planet just to increase profit margins for a few people.

The negative externalities from this must be tremendous.