Landfills and liquidation sales: what happens to the purchases you return? – The Guardian

The gifting is done. Some were successful, others less so the wrong color, size, redundant, too impulsive, not suitable for re-gifting. US consumers return about 20% of all online purchases and the post-holiday period is when the massive, but often unseen, returns logistics industry the reverse supply chain goes into overdrive. According to the National…