World’s biggest Amazon warehouse raises fears over toxic air


An explosion in ecommerce has fuelled a boom in warehousing. Amazon did not have any warehouses in the Inland Empire in 2012, but now operates dozens of facilities in the area, according to data compiled by nonprofit organisation Consumer Reports. — Reuters

LOS ANGELES: Standing at his farm gate in the Inland Empire – a sprawling series of communities east of Los Angeles, California – Randy Beckerage gestures down the street to a construction site rising above an old cattle yard.

It will soon be a nearly 4.1 million square foot (380,000 square meter) Amazon warehouse – a five-story structure billed by logistics experts as the ecommerce giant’s largest such facility in the world.

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