The ecommerce juggernaut – and the hazardous waste it emits

Oleksandr Brylov

It’s hard to believe it’s less than 18 months since we all learned the word ‘Temu’.  And just a few months after that, as early as February this year, Temu was flying some 4,000 tons of goods each day, while Shein accounted for 5,000 tons. (That has now gone up.) 

Estimates suggest Shein wins 320m orders a year. Or 880,000 every day – roughly half Amazon’s 1.6m daily packages.

Shein brings out some 300,000 new products each year, with 600,000 items ...