How are you going to decrease the amount of unwanted material during the process of making your product?

Question: How are you going to decrease the amount of unwanted material during the process of making your product?
- Keywords:
  material,
  waste
Asked by Neena S to Tom on 11 Mar 2016.
- Tom Rooney answered on 11 Mar 2016:
  
  In research I have found we usually only make one or a few of each robot or equipment. With such small numbers there will be very little wastage, especially since we use the things we have made for many years. I usually recycle and salvage or borrow parts of one robot or experiment and build it into another robot, this saves a lot of time and resources.

Question: How are you going to decrease the amount of unwanted material during the process of making your product?