The article presents the results of research related to the concept of the theoretical minimum of waste generation as a physical characteristic of the technological process. With references to the classic works of I. Prigozhin, L. Onsаger, M. Feigenbaum, the limit limits imposed on thermodynamic conditions are shown, which ensure in the technological process not only the production of the main marketable product, but also waste. It is shown that the condition for minimizing waste within the source of their occurrence is technological process, in addition to the state of strong thermodynamic disequilibrium, there is the sufficiency of additional external energy of a given quality, in the calculated volume of at least 62% of the energy used in the technological process. On the basis of computational and experimental examples, it is shown that the entry of the thermodynamic system into the zone of paired bifurcation, according to the initial parameters of the phenomenological equation of L. Onsager, sharply reduces the possibilities of the technological process to achieve the theoretical minimum of waste generation. A reasonable comparison of the technological process in its thermodynamic aspect with the mechanisms of the Feigenbaum chaos associated with the variety of uncertainties that are present in any production of marketable products, through such mechanisms, indirectly, lead to avalanche-like processes of waste generation.