Greetings,
I am a residential home building projet manager and am getting very
tired of the waste that is generated from the construction process. We
throw away enough material to build a home in any third world country.
 I am trying to locate manufactures of waste containers/plastic
pallets ( that could be put together for boxes)or any thing else that
could be used in the residential home building market.  The purpose is
to organize/separate waste into a recycling ( ie. wood in one
container, cardboard,plastic another and so on) Any other ideas would
be appreciated. What are they doing in the rest of the building world?
 thanks

You can save some money on materials by using scrap from one project
for the next, but it will take time to train your employees and sub
contractors and time is money. Worse one of your most valuable
employees/subcontractors will likely become discusted with such thrift
and find work elsewhere.
 On at least rare occassions, a peice of material will be trashed by a
skilled craftsman because of a hidden defect. This peice will be
rescued and used in the next project by a less skilled worker,
resulting in costly rework later. The odds are against a real net
savings.
 If you are determined, it is better to just scatter the trash
everywhere it won't be in the way of work progress as this saves time
finding a usable peice of scrap. If you are detemined to sort, that
should likely be the principle job of one employee at each work site,
as most people are not inclined to thrift, so they need to focus on
thrift and sorting to avoid errors.   Neil

One solution might be to donate the scraps to Habitat for Humanity for
sale in their ReStores.  You can find a list of them here:
http://www.habitat.org/env/restore.aspx

They take donated building materials, sort through them, use what they
can, and sell the rest to the public.  If your main concern is the
senseless waste, this may be a good solution for you.  At least you
would know that everything that could be used would be used with
minimal effort on your part.