Meet the startup keeping big-box returns out of landfills

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Retailers are reducing waste, but less so when handling billions of returned goods. Optoro aims to rethink and reduce the impacts

American consumers are fickle creatures, sending back up to 10 percent of what they buy from merchants every year. That's roughly 3.5 billion items. The exposure is even bigger for e-commerce sites at...

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