AMAZON bosses in Scotland have been condemned for their “obscene” levels of waste after an investigation at one of its Scottish warehouses found the online retail giant is destroying millions of items every year.

Products including smart TVs, laptops, drones, hairdryers and thousands of sealed face masks were found by ITV News to have been sorted into boxes marked “dispose” at the transnational’s “fulfilment centre” in Dunfermline. 

A document leaked to investigators showed more than 124,000 items were marked “destroy” during one week in April, compared with just 28,000 items in the same period labelled “donate.”