Recycling and reclaiming industrial fabric scrap, or edge trim, are major problems for manufacturers of coated and laminated fabrics. Edge trim consists of cut selvage ends, roll ends, reject lots, setup yardage, and other wastes. Estimates of edge trim weight are approximately 6,000 tons per year in the United States. In addition to costs of disposal, manufacturing processes that produce such a high percentage of waste have significant indirect costs because of inefficiency. Edge trim is not easily recyclable, and manufacturers have not been able to develop a technology based solution to the problem. Potential short term solutions to recycling edge trim include energy recovery, solvent extraction, cryogenic fracture, powdering, and pyrolysis. Potential medium term solutions include hydrolysis to monomers, alcoholysis to monomers, catalysis, and biological separation. Potential long term solutions include thermal processing, microwave heating, surface heating, gamma irradiation, ice blast, heat/vacuum depressurization, and remanufacturing.