{"schema_version":1,"experiment_id":"eoa_inverse_innovation_exp09_archetype_breadth150_20260804","research_id":"eoa_inverse_innovation_exp09_light_prior_art_20260804","cell_id":"deadweight_loss_reduction__chemistry_materials","search_lanes":{"direct_problem_and_intervention":{"queries":["university surplus chemical reagent exchange sealed unopened transfer laboratories","chemical redistribution program surplus laboratory chemicals university"],"source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2"],"no_result_note":null},"synonyms_and_historical_terms":{"queries":["reagent sharing marketplace laboratory chemicals inventory reuse","laboratory chemical reuse program cost savings review burden redistribution"],"source_ids":["SRC2","SRC4"],"no_result_note":null},"products_practices_and_standards":{"queries":["university chemical inventory transfer unopened chemicals EHS guidelines","site:epa.gov university laboratory surplus chemicals redistribution reuse hazardous waste minimization"],"source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC3","SRC4"],"no_result_note":null},"component_combination":{"queries":["\"chemical redistribution\" \"inventory system\" EHS approval laboratory","sealed unexpired chemical transfer chain of custody inventory reassignment university"],"source_ids":["SRC1","SRC3"],"no_result_note":null}},"sources":[{"source_id":"SRC1","title":"Chemical Surplus Redistribution Program","publisher":"UCLA Environment, Health & Safety","url":"https://ehs.ucla.edu/waste/management/hazardous-waste-minimization/chemical-surplus","source_type":"FIRST_PARTY_PRODUCT","claims_supported":["UCLA operates a no-cost campus program because laboratories dispose of unused chemicals.","Eligibility is risk-tiered: accepted materials must be unopened, unexpired, stable, and in good condition, while controlled, extremely hazardous, reactive, and peroxide-forming materials are excluded.","Requests are coordinated through EH&S and recipients must add received chemicals to inventory."]},{"source_id":"SRC2","title":"Environmental Programs Chemical Waste Recycling","publisher":"National Institutes of Health","url":"https://nems.nih.gov/environmental-programs/Pages/Chemical-Waste-Recycling.aspx","source_type":"FIRST_PARTY_PRODUCT","claims_supported":["NIH redistributes sealed or unopened, unexpired chemicals collected as discarded surplus from its laboratories.","The program uses a searchable inventory, places inter-building chemicals under environmental-program custody, and delivers approved requests to laboratories.","NIH reports procurement savings from diverting discarded chemicals back to research use and discourages requests without near-term need."]},{"source_id":"SRC3","title":"Guidelines and Procedures for Decommissioning of a Laboratory","publisher":"University of Alabama Environmental Health and Safety","url":"https://ehs.ua.edu/chemical-safety/laboratory-decommissioning/guidelines-and-procedures-for-decommissioning-of-a-laboratory/","source_type":"OFFICIAL_GUIDANCE","claims_supported":["Usable reagents may be transferred between principal investigators after departmental and EHS review.","Transfer information must be updated in the institutional chemical inventory system.","Federally regulated and controlled substances are excluded; EHS controls cross-campus transport and requires compatibility-conscious packaging and secondary containment."]},{"source_id":"SRC4","title":"Project in Excellence and Leadership: New England Universities’ Laboratories Mid-term Evaluation: Piloting Superior Environmental Performance in Labs","publisher":"U.S. Environmental Protection Agency","url":"https://nepis.epa.gov/Exe/ZyPURL.cgi?Dockey=P1008EQP.TXT","source_type":"PRIMARY_RESEARCH","claims_supported":["An EPA-evaluated university-laboratory initiative explicitly tested chemical reuse and redistribution while retaining minimum environmental and health protections.","Participating institutions used EHS-managed inventories, tracking, redistribution procedures, and disposal time limits.","The evaluation documents practical constraints, including administrative investment, limited demand, small samples, and difficulty attributing aggregate waste reductions to redistribution."]}],"problem_evidence":{"status":"PARTLY_SUPPORTED","finding":"Official programs confirm that unused, sometimes sealed and unexpired laboratory chemicals enter disposal streams and that redistribution can avoid purchases and disposal. The retained sources do not establish the proposal's institution-specific premise that a blanket rule blocks exact eligible matches or that a disposed container is followed by procurement of the identical grade and compatible quantity.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC4"]},"closest_prior_art":[{"name":"UCLA Chemical Surplus Redistribution Program","source_ids":["SRC1"],"overlap":"Nearly the proposed intervention: EH&S-mediated same-institution redistribution restricted to unopened, unexpired, stable, good-condition chemicals, with hazardous-category exclusions and receiving-inventory entry.","remaining_difference":"The source does not describe retrospective waste-to-procurement exact matching, documented storage-history screening, case-level burden accounting, or the proposal's formal rollback metrics."},{"name":"NIH Surplus Chemical Redistribution Program","source_ids":["SRC2"],"overlap":"Redistributes sealed or unopened, unexpired surplus reagents through a searchable institutional inventory under environmental-program custody, explicitly to reduce waste and procurement expense.","remaining_difference":"It is a standing repository and request system rather than the proposed narrow review of exact same-site waste/procurement pairs."},{"name":"EHS-reviewed PI-to-PI reagent transfer","source_ids":["SRC3"],"overlap":"Provides an authorized transfer path with EHS review, inventory reassignment, controlled-substance exclusions, and transport safeguards.","remaining_difference":"It is framed as laboratory-decommissioning guidance and does not require the proposal's economic incidence table, exact procurement match, or pilot monitoring design."},{"name":"EPA New England Universities Laboratories redistribution pilots","source_ids":["SRC4"],"overlap":"Historically tested formal EHS-managed chemical redistribution as a waste- and cost-reduction intervention while preserving environmental and health protections, including inventories and tracking.","remaining_difference":"The evaluation is broader than sealed exact-match transfers and reports implementation constraints rather than the proposed case-level causal test."}],"prior_art_disposition":"ESTABLISHED_PRACTICE","contrastive_claim_remaining":"At the focal institution, a retrospective exact-match screen will identify manufacturer-sealed, unexpired, traceable containers that were discarded solely because no authorized transfer path existed, and an EHS-approved pathway with storage, custody, inventory, recipient, and exclusion checks can recover net benefit after review burden without weakening protection. This is an institution-specific implementation and causal claim, not a claim that chemical redistribution itself is new.","contrastive_claim_falsifier":"The bounded record review finds no exact qualifying waste-to-procurement pairs, or case review shows that legal restrictions, uncertain identity or storage, recipient incompatibility, inventory-control burden, or review cost explains the apparent wedge and equals or exceeds avoided purchase, disposal, and delay.","gates":{"adequate_source_search":{"status":"PASS","rationale":"Direct, synonym/historical, program/guidance, and component-combination searches located and opened four retained sources from four publishers, including current first-party programs, official university guidance, and an EPA evaluation.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC3","SRC4"]},"supported_problem":{"status":"PASS","rationale":"The general problem of usable surplus chemicals entering disposal and creating avoidable procurement or disposal costs is visible, although the exact blanket-policy and matched-purchase frequency remains unverified.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC4"]},"distinct_testable_claim":{"status":"PASS","rationale":"Despite substantial prior practice, the remaining local claim is falsifiable through exact record matching and case-level assessment of whether the categorical rule, rather than genuine risk or administrative cost, blocks qualifying transfers.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC3","SRC4"]},"bounded_next_test":{"status":"PASS","rationale":"A record-only review of one building, one completed 90-day period, and at most 30 candidate pairs is bounded, reversible, measurable, and does not require handling chemicals. Existing programs show the relevant inventory, waste, eligibility, and custody fields are operationally meaningful.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC3"]},"no_obvious_safety_or_authority_stop":{"status":"PASS","rationale":"The proposed first step moves no material and assigns review to authorized safety and inventory staff. Any later pilot would require institutional approval and must retain inventory, transport, compatibility, and regulated-material controls demonstrated by official practice.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC3"]}},"screen_survival":false,"world_novelty_boundary":"This bounded search shows that authorized, risk-screened institutional chemical redistribution is established practice and therefore cannot support novelty of the general intervention. It does not establish whether the proposed exact-match retrospective method, full safeguard bundle, or implementation at the focal institution has appeared elsewhere, nor can it establish world novelty, patentability, market size, expert acceptance, or realized value."}