Amazon. A law to prevent product destruction

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Amazon’s digital marketplace operations destroyed about 3 million unsold items in France in 2018. These are goods from third-party sellers for its marketplace. The government wants to pass a law to stop such waste. “We want to consider marketplaces as responsible for the end of life of the products they list”, said the government’s spokesman. “Online firms will no longer be able to throw out products that are still consumable nor to make them unfit for sale. If they do not respect these rules,

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