Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, RISE) | Oireachtas source

I am not sure whether the Taoiseach saw the footage from ITV in Britain last week relating to the practices of Amazon. In its fulfilment centres in that country, the company is destroying up to 200,000 products, and an average of 124,000 to 130,000, per week. Those products are in perfectly good condition, from toasters to televisions to face masks. They could be used but are instead being destroyed in an effort to maximise Amazon's profits. In January next year, the company will open its first fulfilment centre in Ireland. If it adopts the same practices there, it will be destroying, and adding to landfill, hundreds of thousands of products every single week. What action is the Government taking to ensure these anti-environmental practices are not used in this country?

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