This was not a necessarily an economically efficient move. The fact that it is scrap wood implies that it is not useful for the company's purposes, i.e., making furniture. It is presumptuous to associate a value of $150,000 or $29,000 to the scrap since there is no market for it and thus no market value can be assigned. There is no rational way to calculate the optimal amount of scrap wood. The manager did not go far enough. The most economically efficient outcome would be to reduce scrap altogether. Even at the reduced amount, the company is literally throwing away $29,000 per year when it could recoup that amount with greater diligence.
