First, they tore each scrap into narrow strips that they could weave along with bast fibers.
While we sit Waltener plays with some paper, effortlessly plaiting and weaving the scrap into a complicated sculptural form.
Two of P&G's US manufacturing sites are converting pre-consumer nappy and baby wipe scrap into upholstery filling.
A conveyor belt fed shredded circuit boards and scrap into the fire in a dim, fast blur.
He had fallen ill with appendicitis while shovelling scrap into a furnace at a local copper-smelting works.
In effect, however, they are acting as legmen for organized crime, which has turned southern Africa's stolen scrap into a lucrative industry.
I tore off the part of the paper with the Carlisle Street address on it and put that scrap into the envelope.
More than half the world's steel is produced in the basic oxygen process (BOP), which uses pure oxygen to convert a charge of liquid blast-furnace iron and scrap into steel.
When iron tools had reached the end of a useful life, they could be reused by welding the scrap into a blank and starting over, a process akin to the melting of copper and bronze scrap to cast new tools.
In between times he unblocks drains, drinks beer, loads scrap into a dumpster and clearly has some sort of dark secret that's keeping the weight of the world firmly on his shoulders.
The general idea has plenty of precedents, from Pop Art's recontextualizing of ephemeral expression into museum fodder to the awe-inspiring conversion of industrial scrap into the Watts Towers in Los Angeles.
