To further underscore the importance recommerce has to eBay’s platform, users, and more, eBay has recently released their 2020 Recommerce Report. If young consumers are forming attachments to recommerce now, that buying pattern may continue for years down the line. If they don’t eliminate their purchase entirely, they tend to favor a more affordable used good over something new. Buying a used good means the water, energy, and resources that would have produced a new good don’t have to be consumed, and selling a used good postpones its trip to the landfill. In the industries of apparel and electronics alone, recommerce on eBay conserved 720,000 metric tons of carbon emissions.

Source: The Nation July 12, 2021 14:03 UTC