{"id":116499,"date":"2020-05-19T12:00:49","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T05:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/silly-billy-what-the-ikea-bookcase-tells-us-about-the-true-cost-of-fast-furniture\/"},"modified":"2020-05-19T12:18:23","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T05:18:23","slug":"silly-billy-what-the-ikea-bookcase-tells-us-about-the-true-cost-of-fast-furniture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/silly-billy-what-the-ikea-bookcase-tells-us-about-the-true-cost-of-fast-furniture\/","title":{"rendered":"Silly Billy: what the Ikea bookcase tells us about the true cost of fast furniture"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nA Billy bookcase is made every three seconds. But with a third of people admitting to throwing away furniture that they could have sold or donated, does the cheap furniture boom have a heavy environmental price?Jo Jackson remembers the day when it was clear that nothing was going to be the same for a while. It was mid-March and Made.com, an online purveyor of millennial-friendly furniture, had big plans for growth in the year of its 10th anniversary. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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