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When you return those pants you bought, there is a price you don’t see
The next stop for online purchases sent back to the retailer may be the dump.
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Used clothes discarded in Chile's Atacama Desert.
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Pamela Paul
January is a time to redo, revise and recommit. It is also the time to return things.
We can click the return button first on the season’s passive-aggressive and otherwise unwanted gifts. An upgraded espresso machine, perhaps not so necessary. Farewell, too, to the aspirational dress purchased but never quite fit into without a squeeze.
