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Furniture makers a couple of miles away chucks their offcuts out every week and oh boy the haul I came away with this time 🥵 (lemmy.nz)
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Mostly oak and cherry, and a little bit of walnut and maple

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[-] BCsven@lemmy.ca 19 points 3 months ago

They've probably crunched the numbers, where storing inventory and the labour to piece stuff together is more costly than just tossing out the value of the wood.

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