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Found a report saying 60% of drywall waste in landfills comes from cutoffs under 2 feet, where'd that stat come from and does that mean we should be saving scraps more or is the math just off?
Read that in a construction waste study from Oregon last week and I'm torn because saving all those small pieces for patches seems smart but then you're hauling around a truck full of tiny boards that might never get used.
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johnson.lee3mo ago
People are way too worried about two-foot drywall scraps in a dump.
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uma_lopez3mo ago
Keep a small scrap bin in the truck, toss anything under 2 feet in there, and grab from it when you need a patch. That stat is real from that Oregon study, and the math holds up because those tiny offcuts add up fast across a whole job site. The trick is not hauling them around forever. Dump the bin when you hit a certain number of scraps, or just use them up on the next project. If you let them rot in the truck bed for three months, you're just making more work for yourself.
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