Seeing piles of scrap drywall after every job is KILLING me.

It's just WASTE on a massive scale and nobody seems to care.

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Seriously, nobody talks about how we're mining new gypsum while tossing perfect material. That's doubling the environmental hit right there.

the_terry1mo ago

Yeah and those landfill issues don't stay in the landfill. That toxic gas risk can mess with whole neighborhoods, which just adds more cleanup cost for everyone later. So we're all paying for it down the line too.

kim7341mo ago

Honestly that dumpster fee just gets baked into the job cost as a necessary evil. Tbh most crews are too slammed hitting deadlines to sort every scrap piece. The real issue is landfill space, not some hidden tax. Cheaper to toss it than pay guys to handle it differently right now. Until that math changes, the piles won't.

maxf331mo ago

Actually consider where all that scrap ends up. Those dumpster fees add a hidden tax to every single job, costs passed straight to the customer. Worse, hauling it just moves the problem to a landfill where the gypsum can create toxic gas. That’s a future liability nightmare waiting to happen, and it quietly drives up everyone’s insurance rates. So people should care, because they’re literally paying for the problem twice.