Hyderabad, June 23 -- In a shocking reveal, footage from Amazon's warehouse in Scotland's Dunfermline showed the mega-corporation destroying returned or unsold items like laptops, jewellery, books, Television sets, headphones, hairdryers on a large scale.

Amazon destroys millions of items from its unsold stock every year, many of which are new or unused, British news organisation ITV reported.

The video showed a range of items, from smart TVs to thousands of sealed face masks, all going into crates marked 'destroy'. Untouched articles, which could be redistributed to charities, are instead sent to recycling centres of landfill sites.

"From a Friday to a Friday our target was to generally destroy 130000 items a week. I used to gasp. The...