: Hi Daan,

: You're not making enough boats, if you were you'd have a huge pile
: of glass scraps and after awhile it's silly saving every one ;)

: Bill H.

Or, one might donate that huge pile of scraps to an art program at a local college, or sell it by weight to local crafters, or donate it to a local scout troop, or shred it to make filler material (chopped or milled glass fibers) for thickening resin.

Now that would be a kind and considerate thing to do for others.

Of course a good business manager would find ways to do more for the company.

One idea would be to develop a market for those scraps. I have no idea what kind of products could be made from those scraps. Maybe someone could hold a contest and ask for ideas. There are all kinds of creative people out there who might have ideas.

There are plenty of instances where products which were originally considered scraps became major industries. In the pertroleum industry, for example, excess natural gas may be captured, or just burned off at the oil well. In the early history of petroleum refining, people wanted oil for their lamps, so after that was removed, the distillers were left with a waste product called gasoline. Once someone figured out a way to run an internal-combustion engine with the stuff -- well, have you checked the price of gasoline today?

It is a shame to trash excess fiberglass, though, because the stuff never decomposes.

PGJ