In my younger days I had an experience working with some guys that were looking to document how Industrial scale wood recycling would work. We wrote the book on the process, but never got it off the ground.
But I did learn something, lots actually.
I learned the value of keeping and sorting offcuts in the shop. Exotic wood is pricy enough let alone just tossing off cuts into the landfill.
I use a ton of Dollar Store plastic bins to sort and keep short bits to longer lengths. I cannot tell you enough how many projects can be made if you have a good supply. There is often situations I need only a small, or thin piece, to have to create them from huge rough lumber is not favourable.
Also, often times I make extra parts for quality sake and never end up using them. For fun I create a Puzzle design every so often that uses just left over puzzle parts and I call it a Snakenstein, lol.
Most importantly, have fun with the process.
Do you have a process that is working for you?