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$250 Billion of Waste… Every Year 🤯

Name: $250 Billion of Waste… Every Year 🤯
Uploaded: 2026-04-14T20:21:54+00:00
Duration: 33 s
Channel: Will Milling
Description: In this brief monologue, the speaker asserts that every business with a supply chain carries excess inventory—unused raw materials and surplus finished…

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In this brief monologue, the speaker asserts that every business with a supply chain carries excess inventory—unused raw materials and surplus finished goods that typically sit idle in warehouses, are burned, or end up in landfills. The speaker’s team quantified this global inefficiency at roughly $250 billion worth of excess inventory each year, highlighting the massive scale of waste inherent in modern supply chains.

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Every business in the world with a supply chain has excess inventory. We all have it. It's just a fact of doing business. Unused raw materials, excess finished goods that unfortunately traditionally sits in a warehouse collecting dust or being burned or sent to landfill. And when I first started looking at this problem with our team, We quantified it at approximately $250 billion a year worth of excess inventory.