The State of ITAD 2026 — Returna's annual market report

The State of ITAD 2026

Chris Zimmerman 42 min read Jun 2, 2026

Most enterprise ITAD programs are not failing because the vendors can't do the work. They're failing because there is no buyer-side control layer above the vendors. The processing is excellent. The orchestration is on a spreadsheet.

That is the argument of our annual report. Seven chapters covering the four questions you should be able to answer in five minutes, why the market is built against the buyer, the five value leaks costing enterprises real money, the four converging forces about to make all of it worse, the vendor landscape across sixteen categories, the buyer-side playbook, and where this ends up between 2026 and 2030.

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