Reuse and recycling (Score 1)

By far, the majority of material used in
regulated industry is reused internaly
or recycled elsewhere, including most
chemicals.

So I use 200 gallons of water to make
a particular part in my C$C machine.
That water is filtered and reused for
the next part, or during the manufacture
of that 1st part.

If I'm making a 2lb aluminum bracket,
I might have to start with a 10 lb piece
or larger of stock. I end up with 8 lbs
of scrap, right?

Any water I 'use' is lost to evaporation,
and the lost material from shavings is
shipped off for scrap and made into a
new piece of stock.

Quoting these 'material costs' or
'environmental costs' as they are impies
that the excess material is not reused,
but is instead just shipped off and put
into a landfill or the ocean.

Bleh.

-Dirk R.