My buddy in Tacoma waited EIGHT months for a simple deck permit. The inspector made him redo the footings THREE times for no clear reason.

I just looked up how much aluminum gets thrown out from machine shops every year. It's something like half a million tons just in the US. All that energy to make it from scratch when you could just melt the scraps down again. Throwing that in a landfill is like burning money and then paying extra to dump the ashes.