Found a stat about drywall waste that surprised me

Was reading through some trade magazine last night and saw that the average drywall job wastes about 12-15% of material. That is like one sheet out of every seven just getting tossed. I always knew we left scraps but never realized it added up that much. The article said over a year that can cost a crew around $3,000 in lost material. Made me think about how I cut my sheets and if I could save more. Anybody else track their waste or got tips for using up the odd pieces?

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rivera.simon26d ago

Funny how we just accept waste like that when we'd never throw out money the same way.

ruby_murphy26d ago

Wait, you're saying people literally throw money in the trash without a second thought? I know we all do dumb stuff with packaging and leftovers but that's a whole other level of not caring. It's like someone handed you a five dollar bill and you just tossed it in the bin because you couldn't be bothered. Makes you wonder what else we're just blindly wasting that's actually worth something.