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    Investors Want to Talk Food Waste With Amazon

    Green Century Capital, others ask SEC to force Amazon to explain plans to mitigate environmental impact and cost of wasted food at its growing grocery operations

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    Investors are pushing Amazon.com Inc. to explain how much of the food from its expanding grocery operations goes to waste.

    Green Century Capital Management, Inc. and other investors asked the Securities and Exchange Commission Thursday to force Amazon to allow shareholders to vote on a proposal asking it to explain its plans to mitigate the environmental impact and cost of wasted food.

    “This...

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