Legislation to ban companies like Amazon from dumping unused products is set to be introduced in the Seanad.
Sinn Fein's Lynn Boylan has announced the proposal after Amazon opened its first warehouse in Ireland in Baldonnell, Dublin. Senator Boylan said: "[The warehouse] highlights the absolute need for legislation to ban companies from dumping brand new unused items such as laptops, TVs and drones.
"Investigations in Germany, France and Britain have all exposed the practice. In 2020, one exposé in Britain found that up to 130,000 items a week were being binned in a single Amazon Warehouse." She added that this is a part of the business model of large corporations including the fashion industry where thousands of tonnes of textiles and garments are dumped and burned.
