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You would be amazed what we get left with. Pre-covid if customers left stuff they didn’t want we would take anything worthwhile to bike jumbles, with the covid bike madness and restrictions that stopped.
We keep a box of derailleurs, levers and shifters for spares which enable us to scavenge parts for other repairs or supply people with hard to find bits (we just give these FOC) and any unusable metal gets collected by a local scrap man who splits up the materials and weighs it in (again something we used to do ourselves but not really worth the time).
There’s also my stash, when I spot something going to waste that I think deserves better i pop it in a box of bits I keep.
So don’t worry, it’s not going to landfill. But yes, I definitely thought this was a good use of the various bits and it was a fun exercise rummaging through bits.
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That's come out real nice.
I find it crazy what shops will throw out as "scrap". I get it, time is money and money is scarce. Reusing components mix-and-match is a luxury for those of us with time to invest in making it work. But it's still frustrating, so good on you for making something nice instead of sending to landfill.