Discussing ways to reduce waste and build community!
Celebrate thrift as a virtue, talk about creative ways to make do, or show off how you reused something!
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Scrappiest of scrap wood projects.
The proportions are odd, but it's designed to fit under the landing of the stairs going into the garage. Makes a good use of an otherwise awkward space. Like everything else in the shop, it's on casters to allow for easy movement and cleaning around.
Most of this wood was from the big lifting tower I used to get the dust collector motor into place.
Bonus: when you run out of scrap from the box, you can use the box!
That’s some nice scrap wood. My region is so overloaded with Ikea melamine particle board garbage that I only keep two pieces around. On any spontaneous day that I need wood, I can cycle around the neighborhood and find a pile of Ikea discards. Every minute of every day, there is something.
Solid wood would be worth saving but it’s much more scarcely dumped on curbs than Ikea wood.
Not only that but people use to place up fournitures and old stuff salvageable outside, on visible spot, for people needing it when it would be time for heavy trash pick up what would be left would be taken away. Now local authorities have defund heavy trash pick and worked very hard at rebranding this as littering. It start to affect the way people act: now they get rid of trash. Salvageable things mixed with literal rubbishes and broken unfixable stuff.
I recently found out about a local non-profit which collects scrap unused building material. Then it gets stored until someone needs it. You can’t just be a taker though.. they keep track of who gives what so if you give something you then have an allowance to take stuff. It’s a kind of bartering. It works around the hard-ass repair/hobbyist-hostile municipalities like yours.
Nice concept.
How much wood can a scrap wood scrap if a scrap wood wood scrap wood
(Jokes aside I think that's cool as hell!! Innovative and a fantastic zero-waste project)
For a second I thought your scrap wood bin was shoved under a scrap wood baby cradle. I was beginning to question your parenting skills
It's for the scrap baby; no one wants it
I'm hopeless with wood scraps - I can't throw anything out. We burn wood for heat in winter so I put small pieces in the kindling stack, but the various racks and shelves I've built are overflowing and I have a huge pile on the floor next to my table saw. And it's not even good wood - it was either hardware store building lumber or recycled from something else before it became an offcut and I still can't throw it out.
Maybe you can inform people around you that you have extra wood in case they need some. It won't empty your stock but from time to time you could get rid of some and help someone.
Seconding this! I also keep an eye out on my local Buy Nothing group, and offer up wood scraps when I see someone looking for something I have. It helps keep folks from buying new and if I need it in the future, chances are someone else will have a replacement for me. (I also get a lot of lumber this way).
I've given away stair treads, particleboard sheets, plywood, and dimensional lumber, sometimes cut or milled to whatever dimensions they need. I even used my scraps and part of a table to build a saddle stand for someone who was looking for a suitable piece of furniture for displaying a saddle once!
