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Originally Posted by alatar
Saruman equips his army in metal, and seemingly produces a lot of waste - then again, he didn't care so much. Anyway, his army was small compared to all of the armies that marched out of Minas Tirith, so even if Gondor has a clean process, there'd be some residue somewhere.
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Honestly, I don't know a great deal about metal-working, but it seems that Saruman, having to start his warmaking capability basically from scratch, would have had a lot of smithying to do to arm his forces in a short period of time.
Gondor, on the other hand, was a well-established realm which had stood for thousands of years. I think it's likely a lot of the weapons and armour used by the Gondorians would have been products of older times, with especially the nobler families retaining swords as heirlooms.
As for the waste from what Gondor
did produce, why not some underground storage facilities adjacent to the smithies in the City? Wouldn't that be sufficient to keep the stuff they couldn't recycle?