Vape inventory becomes unsellable for regulatory reasons more often than for commercial ones. A product can lose its legal path to market through a federal marketing decision, a state flavor…
Medical devices occupy an awkward middle ground in destruction. They are regulated products like pharmaceuticals, they often contain electronics and batteries like consumer goods, and some of them store patient…
Winning a counterfeit case or recovering fake product from a distributor feels like the end of the problem. In practice it is the start of a logistics problem. Somebody now…
A food recall moves through the news cycle in a few days. The work of closing it takes months. Product has to be recovered from distributors, retailers, and warehouses, counted…
Most companies have a closet, a storage unit, or an offsite vault holding years of backup tapes nobody has looked at in a long time. The systems that wrote them…
For years, products made with PFAS were sold without restriction across the United States. That has changed state by state, and the result is a category of inventory that was…
Pharmaceutical inventory does not become ordinary waste just because it can no longer be sold. A pallet of expired tablets at a distribution center can contain three or four different…
Every company that has been through a rebrand has the same closet. Boxes of shirts with theold logo, pens with a phone number that no longer connects, tote bags from…
Every January there is a warehouse somewhere with a wall of holiday product that did not sell.The instinct is to keep it, because it feels like throwing away money to…
Defense contractors and their suppliers accumulate inventory that cannot be thrown away.Superseded parts, rejected production runs, test articles, obsolete tooling, marked packaging,and printed technical data all pile up, and every…