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Shock: It has become known that Amazon is doing with millions of unsold goods. VIDEO

According to investigative journalism, Amazon destroys millions of completely new products, including televisions, toys, books and diapers, which it cannot sell. Some items cost hundreds of dollars.

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Tons of products, some of which are still in the package, are taken to huge dumps or burned, writes The Daily Mail. The shocking waste was discovered by reporters from the French Capital newspaper, who were secretly filmed at one of the company's giant warehouses worth several billion dollars.

Reporters posing as Amazon employees discovered a so-called "shatter zone" where employees were secretly filmed sending untouched, high-priced toys, unused kitchen equipment and flat-screen TVs to a truck that would take it all to the landfill.

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Later, cameras mounted on the drone chased the truck from the Amazon warehouse to the dumping ground.

The French investigation has focused on Amazon's operations in the country, but the practice is believed to be not limited to France. When reporters asked the company a series of detailed questions, including about the destruction of goods, Amazon representatives repeatedly refused to answer directly. One of the representatives said that “we donate unsold products to charities with which we cooperate” (he was talking about the British Amazon).

In a documentary video filmed by a team of journalists, executives tell how the retail giant charges pounds sterling (22 dollars) from a 28,50 company per square meter of storage space for their products. But this cost rises to 430 pounds (557 dollars) for the same place after six months and to 860 pounds per year (1114 dollars).

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In one case, a businessman who participated in the program said Amazon charged his company 17 pounds ($22) per item, but only 13 pence (17 American cents) for destruction. Suppliers say that when their products don't sell, they have no choice but to pay Amazon to destroy them because they can't afford to return them or continue to stock them.

British officials called Amazon's practices "shameful" and the spectacle "shocking and heartbreaking." Labor Department spokeswoman Mary Krieg said: "At a time when millions of people are struggling to make ends meet and afford basic necessities, it is a scandal that unused food is simply being destroyed when it could be given to people in need."

“In addition, such a policy has disastrous consequences for the environment. In a recent Audit Committee inquiry, Amazon was one of the most successful retailers. It is shocking that this destructive practice is now widespread within the company,” Krieg added.

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In a television documentary shown on the French channel M6, investigators received official Amazon data, which showed that more than three million brand new products were destroyed in France last year.

The retail giant boasts more than three hundred so-called "fulfillment centers" around the world - each the size of ten football fields.

Craig Bennett, chief executive of Friends of the Earth, said: “Amazon has already come under fire for its wasteful use of packaging and pollution from its deliveries. Now the company is destroying completely new products. This further worsens the environment; in addition, electronics production requires huge amounts of water and other resources. And their disposal has a harmful impact on the climate.”

Bennett called it "wasteful behavior and reckless disregard for the planet."

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