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Penalizes small businesses that use its platforms. The Sun magazine did a feature interview with author Stacy Mitchell on how Amazon undermines local economies and is bad for small businesses.A law firm has filed a class action lawsuit claiming that Amazon, along with five major publishers, have kept the price of e-books artificially high.

Has allegedly engaged in price fixing of e-books.This is “enough to circle the earth over a hundred times in the form of air pillows.” A report from Oceana found that in 2019, Amazon generated 465 million pounds of plastic waste. But, Amazon has a long way to go to get to zero emissions. Green America’s Build a Cleaner Cloud campaign has been pushing Amazon for years to use clean energy to power its web hosting services, one of the biggest cloud storage hosts on the internet, and gotten Amazon to finally commit to 100% renewable energy by 2025. The Center for Biological Diversity’s “Amazon Shine” campaign pushes Amazon to use solar energy to power its warehouses for the good of wildlife habitats. Is a major climate emitter. Amazon’s climate emissions are similar to Denmark’s and grew 19% in 2020 at a time when global emissions fell.Facilitates the human rights crisis on the US-Mexico border. The Guardian reported that Amazon Web Services hosts the Department of Homeland Security's databases which allows "the department and its agencies to track and apprehend immigrants." Additionally, Amazon’s technology is being used to denaturalize US citizens, as reported by Gizmodo.AND, 89% of injured delivery workers reported that their injuries were related to production pressure or speed. In a recent survey by the Strategic Organizing Center, they found 49% of delivery workers reported pain or injuries that caused them to miss work.

Creates dangerous working conditions for delivery workers.

And, Amazon workers sustained more than 24,000 serious injuries in 2020. Recent research by the Strategic Organizing Center found that injury rates at Amazon facilities are reportedly double that of the industry average.

Has double the injury rates of industry average.

The union alleged that it gave the impression that Amazon might have had access to the secret ballots cast by workers.” Postal Service mailbox to be installed in the fulfillment center parking lot during the election. NBC News reports: “Amazon illegally arranged for a U.S. Amazon has a long history of opposing unionization and most recently was accused of violating labor law during the Bessemer, Alabama Union election.

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Amazon is full of deals, but those deals come at a big cost to people and the planet. So, before you click on that item that sounds like a steal, check out Green America's 10 Reasons to not shop Amazon.