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scrap
a. waste material or used articles, esp metal, often collected and reprocessed
b. (as modifier): scrap iron

scrap [skrap]
(engineering)
Any solid material cutting or reject of a manufacturing operation, which may be suitable for recycling as feedstock to the primary operation; for example, scrap from plastic or glass molding or metalworking.

SCRAP - Something written at CSIR, Pretoria, South Africa in the late 1970s. It ran on Interdata and Perkin-Elmer computers and was in use until the late 1980s.



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Recyclers such as Tony McCarthy, whose Florida company was featured in the December 2006 issue of Recycling Today, and Randy Castriota, whose Pennsylvania company is profiled in this issue's Scrap Metals Supplement, have offered second chances to employees who are convicted criminals.
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