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Amazon.com means garbage to me. Mainly because I see how much garbage from them ends up in my building's trash. And my city's trash. The most visible is their
by spodek 7y ago
Amazon.com means garbage to me.
Mainly because I see how much garbage from them ends up in my building's trash. And my city's trash.
The most visible is their packaging, but their ease-of-ordering leads to most of the products people buy from them being stupid shit nobody needs or wants beyond the moment someone's urge leads them to buy it now.
I suggest that most of us would be happier and the world cleaner if Amazon located its warehouses next to landfills and when people bought things they simply moved the products from the warehouse to the landfill, skipping the steps of shipping them to the person for them to throw them out. For example, my city, New York's, Department of Sanitation cost would drop from 1.6 billion annually and our noise would drop with fewer trash trucks.
Of course I'm overstating, but the longer you go without using them, the less you'll consider it overstatement. If you haven't, I recommend going without for six months or a year.
- paulpauper 7y agoumm...let us suppose that instead of amazon producing the garbage, it's split among dozens of smaller companies. Would it matter. Economic activity will produce waste whether it is from a single company or multiple ones. it's just that amazon is a bigger target.
- Konnstann 7y agoI think the idea is that the convenience of Amazon causes economic activity that otherwise wouldn't happen. Personally, I've never bought any knickknacks off of the site, but I definitely see enough marginally-useful garbage when I am browsing to understand the parent's point.
- spodek 7y agoExactly. Plus, at least in a city, we can buy from local places that used less packaging and shipping in total life analysis.