Milk gets dumped, as stores limit due to shortages. Here's why. - Business Insider

Supply chain disruptions are to blame for the thousands of gallons of milk going to waste.

"Mass closures of restaurants and schools have forced a sudden shift from those wholesale food-service markets to retail grocery stores, creating logistical and packaging nightmares for plants processing milk, butter and cheese,""Trucking companies that haul dairy products are scrambling to get enough drivers as some who fear the virus have stopped working," Huffstutter continued.

that people will be using roughly 40% more toilet paper if they shelter in place during the coronavirus outbreak. People won't be using bathrooms at work, in restaurants, or in other public spaces, causing a massive increase of toilet paper use at home, according to manufacturer Georgia-Pacific. Because toilet paper makers typically produce different products for commercial uses versus people shopping at places like Walmart and Costco, the US is facing an abundance of one type of toilet paper at the same time there are shortages of other types.

"People desperate for toilet paper probably wouldn't turn up their noses at it," Oremus reports. "But the industry can't just flip a switch. Shifting to retail channels would require new relationships and contracts between suppliers, distributors, and stores; different formats for packaging and shipping; new trucking routes — all for a bulky product with lean profit margins.

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