Amazon reportedly destroyed $4 in a single week.Burberry ,Urban Outfitters , H&M, Nike, andVictoria's Secret have also come under fire for the practice.- The fashion industry makes up $4.
Amazon is not the only company that has been reportedly destroying unsold goods.
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But Amazon is far from the only offender.
Brands including $4, $4, $4, $4, $4, $4, $4, and $4 have all been accused of doing the same, $4.
$4and said it "used specialist incinerators that harness energy from the process." The destroyed goods totaled about $37 million, compared to Burberry's revenue of $3.8 billion that year.
"Burberry has insisted it's recycling the clothing into energy, except the energy that is recouped from burning clothing doesn't come anywhere near the energy that was used to create the garments," Timo Rissanen, an associate dean at Parsons School of Design and a professor of fashion design and sustainability told $4 in a 2018 interview.
The amount of garments that people have been buying annually has been steadily increasing since the early 2000's. Insider previously reported that $4 dries up water sources, and pollutes river streams."
$4 have also participated in the burning of merchandise. $4, the Swiss company behind brands like Cartier and Montblanc, said in 2018 it had destroyed more than $500 million worth of watches to keep them out of the hands of resellers.
In response to ITV's reporting, an Amazon spokesperson told Insider that no clothes were sent to landfills, but "as a last resort," some may be sent to "energy recovery."
"We're working hard to drive the number of times this happens down to zero," Amazon said.