Patent ID: 8079132

Claim:
A method for shielding discarded or unwanted products, said method comprising the steps of: a) providing one of a retail facility, a wholesale facility and a manufacturing facility containing an inventory including a plurality of products each including a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag; b) providing said facility with an RFID reader and an RFID waste collection container located in said facility adjacent to said RFID reader, said RFID waste collection container defining a magnetic shielding enclosure for shielding and electromagnetically isolating said RFID tags when said products being disposed therein; c) determining if one of said plurality of products from said inventory is not wanted by a customer of said facility; and d) discarding said unwanted product by placing said unwanted product from said inventory refused by the customer in said facility into said RFID waste collection container until said unwanted product collected and returned to said inventory so that said RFID tag of said unwanted product does not interfere with ongoing activities in said facility by emitting errant signals.