An entire production wardrobe, donated without a trace of where it came from.
Major global entertainment company · Production wrap
10 tonnes of post-production material, 96% recovered, zero to landfill — and 100% of the remaining wardrobe donated without exposing a single piece of sensitive data.
At a glance
- Scope
- 10 tonnes · 23–24 pallets
- Services
- Secure intake, de-identification, chain-of-custody destruction, donation, recycling
The challenge
When a large production wraps, it leaves behind wardrobe tagged with talent names, cast photography, printed documents and material tied to unreleased content. Donating it carelessly exposes data; destroying all of it wastes tonnes of usable material.
What was at stake
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Confidentiality: no tag, photo or reference could leave the operation.
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ESG commitments: the client required documented donation and recycling, not just compliant disposal.
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Scale: 10 tonnes of mixed material, several stages and partners, no room for a single failure.
How Hyperion solved it
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Secure intake — 23–24 pallets received and catalogued at a nonprofit partner facility under controlled access.
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De-identification — every item processed by hand: tags removed, cast photos extracted, identifying references eliminated. Nothing moved forward without individual verification.
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Chain-of-custody destruction — all identifiable material shredded on-site and incinerated, with an auditable record of destruction.
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Circular destination — remaining wardrobe donated across multiple recipient organizations, so no item could be linked back to the production; plastics, hangers and cardboard went to recycling.
Results
- Post-production material processed (23–24 pallets)
- 10 t
- Material recovery rate — recycled or donated
- 96%
- Remaining wardrobe donated
- 100%
- Data exposure incidents
- 0
Proof delivered
- Chain-of-custody records
- Auditable destruction record
- Documented impact metrics (recovery, landfill diversion)
Business value
Donation and confidentiality usually cancel each other out. Here they worked together: the client met its ESG goals with 100% landfill diversion and zero exposure incidents — with a model ready to replicate across other productions and territories.