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#5SmartReads - March 10, 2021

#5SmartReads - March 10, 2021

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Today’s #5SmartReads curator is regular contributor Diksha! See the questions below to get to know her better:

Q: If it’s on the menu, I always order....
A: Moules et frites - love this combination always and forever

Q: Favorite book as a child?
A: Roald Dahl series- it has been a real pleasure re-discovering these with my kids and they love them as much as I do.

Q: Dream birthday cake?
A: I'm simple- I love love love a yellow sheet cake with icing, Costco does it best ;P

Free Returns Come With An Environmental Cost (The Verge)

Online shopping has made the process of buying mindless.  There's always the easy justification "if it doesn't work, I'll return it".  Have you thought about what happens to the returned items?   A staggering 5 billion pounds of returned goods end up in U.S. landfills each year, with most returned items ending up in the trash. To put that in perspective, that's equal to the trash footprint of about 3 million U.S. individuals. E-commerce specifically has a 20-30% highe…

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