Can I delete the original photos that my "non-destrucive" edits were made upon?

My iPhoto libarary is way larger than it needs to be and having a way to remove the original files the non-destructive edits were made would give me around 15 GB of space back. Is this possible?

No
iPhoto is a Digital Assett Manager (DAM) and always keeps the original (the digital negative) - if that is not what you want you need to use a different photo manager
LN

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