Gather up any offcuts, re-roll and cut out the extras.
The Whitworth will reopen on Valentine's Day with a show from Cornelia Parker, who has taken over one of the gallery's airy new exhibition halls to produce The War Room, a piece made from rolls of red paper used to make Remembrance poppies, offcuts from the production process with ghostly negatives of the flowers.
Helping my grandmother to make a pie, she would give me the raw offcuts and a small bowl of caster sugar in which to dip them, on the promise that I didn't tell my mother – a cook's treat that, to this day, I still indulge in.
The vast majority of homes here are no more than simple barracos, cobbled together from a patchwork of scrap wood and offcuts, MDF and plywood.
Within are offcuts of clothing ordered by the current heir to the British throne used for repairs.
Corn stover, garden waste such as grass clippings, and offcuts from forestry and timber production are better bets, she reckons.And if sequestration by biochar is deemed sensible, there remains the question of how, exactly, to go about it.
Staff are now rewarded for efficiency in using leather (the costliest input) and run an internal market to sell offcuts.
The Grosvenor Estate, which owns around 2,300 hectares of forest across Britain, recently invested in biomass boilers, which turn offcuts into energy.
In February the resulting company, Range Fuels, announced that it would build a commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol plant in Georgia, using the state's abundant wood offcuts as feedstock.The VCs who used this model to transform the computer business reckon that they can do the same for the energy business.
Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand were founded in 2000 as offcuts from two of India's poorest states.
When account is taken of the loss in sawdust in conversion from the tree trunk (taking off the outer slab portions and sapwood) and the further loss in bringing the lumber to usable size in the workshop (the offcuts, waste in sawing shapes, in turning, in planing, cutting joints, and final cleaning up), it becomes evident that much more wood is wasted than used.
